The submarine is the fifth Navy vessel to bear the name Idaho. The first was a wooden-hulled storeship commissioned in 1866.

The keel was laid for USS Barb, the 31st Virginia-class nuclear-powered submarine, amid a transition away from Los ...

A contract to complete specific work on the US Navy’s Virginia -class nuclear-powered attack submarines has been outsourced for the first time to Babcock International in the UK, allowing the company ...

HII and Babcock have signed a contract that expands their strategic partnership to further support the Virginia-class ...

Shipbuilder HII and the Babcock International Group have signed a contract to support Virginia-class submarine production via a new strategic partnership intended to build resiliency in the submarine ...

Newport News Shipbuilding and General Dynamics Electric Boat (GDEB) are readying a nuclear submarine for delivery to the U.S. Navy. Christened in May 2023, the Virginia-class attack sub USS ...

Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) recently stated that its Newport News Shipbuilding (“NNS”) division has delivered the Virginia-class fast-attack submarine Massachusetts (SSN 798) to the U.S. Navy.

This is the first Virginia -class outsourced contract to Babcock in support of NNS-specific submarine work, authorizing ...