General Dynamics Electric Boat, a business unit of General Dynamics, announced on 29 July that it's received an amendment to a previously awarded contract from the US Navy for the repair, maintenance and modernisation of the submarine USS Hartford (SSN 768).

Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC) awarded a $1.7-billion construction project Aug. 13 to expand and reconfigure a dry dock complex at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (PNSY) in Kittery, Maine, to increase the shipyard's capacity to maintain, modernize, and repair the Navy's attack submarines and return them to the fleet on time.