Posted on 01/10/2017 12:18:07 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
With a Navy commitment in hand to build 18 new Columbia-class nuclear submarines, Electric Boat in Groton is planning a hiring and spending spree that will be felt across the state.
The company is gearing up to hire 2,000 new employees this year at its Connecticut and Rhode Island plants, with 1,350 jobs slated for Groton.
Electric Boat employs about 14,500 people in Connecticut and Rhode Island, and that employment is projected to grow to 18,000 by 2030.
Company President Jeffrey Geiger on Monday told business and legislative leaders during an annual update that the company will meet the Navy's expectations and expand its workforce, supplier base and facilities.
“I'm excited about the potential opportunity,” Geiger said. “We have a bright future with growth and substantial new work ahead of us. This future provides a great opportunity for state and local communities to come grow with us.”
Dan Barrett, an Electric Boat spokesman, said that last year the Eastern Connecticut-based company spent $29.1 million on orders from 33 suppliers based in the 4th Congressional District....
(Excerpt) Read more at ctpost.com ...
Deja vu. Reminds me when Reagan was first elected in 1980. I was just coming out of the military and jobs were scarce as a result of the Carter malaise. Then Reagan got elected and pledged to build a 600 ship Navy and I got hired in a local shipyard making good money in one of my first civilian jobs. It was like I won the lottery.
The similarities between Reagan and Trump seem uncanny to me.
Columbia Class = Ohio SSBN replacement.
More winning! We will be needing more surface ships and planes too. More Jobs!
I honestly cannot imagine the reserved hi tech available for subs, things we occasionally hear rumors of but are so far beyond it just boggles the mind, and its all been in limbo since Obama flipped the OFF switch to our military, drained the fuel tanks and slashed the tires figuratively.
The union hands have a habit of sabotaging a boat so they can get some days off.
we need to move those yards out of CT and RI to Red states. libs hate the military unless it provides them with money.
That is an excellent idea
We also need an upgrade of the Trident to a true intercontinental missile with even more warheads.
“Columbia Class = Ohio SSBN replacement.”
I just looked it up and it is the same length but one foot wider then the Ohio class. The interesting thing is that it will have only 16 missle launch tubes compared to the Ohio’s 24. This seems to suggest that the new submarine may have additional roles other then just a missle platform.
Hmmm. I’ve been looking for a career change from aircraft engineering. Anyone live in the area?
Recently seen in Portsmouth shipyard, in 2012. I hope they put him away for a long while, dipcrap that he is. And tighten security clearances.
See: SSN Thresher welding errors (union caused) from the official report of why the Thresher went below crush depth on her shakedown cruise.... killing the entire crew and the captain who was classmate of father in law.
This crap has just got to stop, and the real Navy knows just how to do it.
This activity in 2012, for a freaking leave early a-hole:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/07/23/civilian-worker-charged-with-arson-in-maine-navy-sub-fire.html
My old company. :*-/
Wish I could say I have a career to be proud of now!
Used to work there.
Finally revisited in 2015. Long time, things have changed a bit. Including the logistics of EB (partly know because of my former lead engr). Not sure I’d want to be an engr there now with the logistics! (Of course joke was none of us wanted to work there at all...indeed, I got a job out of there back home when it came up.)
Hope this isn’t another let’s build it before we design it like the zumwalt and Ford classes
I know a person directly hired by this effort, and this massive increase in hiring at Electric Boat has been going on for at least the past 6 months, so it would be inaccurate to attribute it to Trump.
Make sure that their work-force is diverse and especially employing the poor MUSLIM refugees.
Sad time.
I was stationed on a sub at New London, just up the river from this construction site, when the USS Thresher went down.
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