NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — Newport News Shipbuilding has opened a $100 million facility to accommodate building two Virginia-class submarines each year.
Company officials held a grand opening of the 65,000-square-foot Supplemental Module Outfitting Facility on Friday. A section of the future nuclear-powered sub USS Illinois has already moved into the facility. It will be the first ship of the two-per-year schedule delivered to the Navy in 2016.
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