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Electric Boat Jobs Uncertain After Navy Scraps USS Miami
EB had hired additional workers to help with the repairs.
Electric Boat hired more than 350 people to repair the USS Miami and to conduct regular maintenance on other subs and now that the Navy has scrapped its plans to repair the Miami, EB isn’t sure how that will affect jobs.
The USS Miami was set afire last year while it was in dry dock in the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. The fire caused more than $700 million in repairs, according to a report in The Day, and budgetary constraints have put an end to the Navy’s plans to repair the Groton-based nuclear submarine.
The Navy had been considering moving the sub back to Groton for repairs. EB had already won $94 million contract to draft a plan for the repairs and everyone expected them to also win the contract for the repairs.
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