# US Navy awards $22.2B contract to Electric Boat and Newport News for 9 Virginia-class submarines

The US Navy awarded a $22.2 billion contract to General Dynamics Electric Boat and Huntington Ingalls Industries' Newport News Shipbuilding for nine Virginia-class Block V attack submarines, with an option for a tenth.

- Type: Contract
- Announced: 2019-12-02
- Where: United States
- Value: $22.2B
- Status: announced
- Products: Virginia-class Block V attack submarines
- Sectors: [Automotive Components](https://endata.com/sectors/automotive-components.md)

## Companies

- [Huntington Ingalls Industries](https://endata.com/companies/4127.md) (supplier)
- [General Dynamics Electric Boat](https://endata.com/companies/5313.md) (supplier)
- [United States Navy](https://endata.com/companies/15467.md) (customer)

## Sources

- [news.usni.org](https://news.usni.org/2019/12/02/navy-awards-22b-contract-to-electric-boat-newport-news-shipbuilding-for-9-block-v-virginia-subs), 2019-12-02: "Our whole philosophy going into this is, get Virginia as a stable foundation which then we can build Columbia on top of."

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