The Navy’s Columbia-class submarines will arguably be the most formidable vessels of their kind to sail the seas.

Overall, the Navy plans to invest as much as $130 billion in the new class of nuclear-powered submarines. The funds will go to the research, design, development, and purchase of twelve Columbia ...

The USS Columbia returned to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Hawaii after a seven-month deployment to the Indo-Pacific ...

The Navy plans to deliver the first, or lead, Columbia class submarine—the largest and most complex submarine in its history—more quickly than it did for the lead submarines of prior classes ...

The Navy is preparing to shoot its Trident II D5 nuclear missile from its emerging new Columbia-class submarine as part of a plan to launch the boat’s first patrol ahead of schedule in the late ...

The Navy plans to support stationing nuclear Columbia Class submarines as replacements for the retiring Ohio Class submarines currently at Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay. The Navy will construct ...

The Navy, industry and Congress are discussing plans to speed up full production plans for its first Columbia-Class nuclear armed ballistic missile submarine as part of a broader move to increase ...

The reason the Pentagon plans to build twelve Columbia’s to replace fourteen Ohio-class ballistic missiles submarines is because the Columbia’s are built with a “life-of-core” nuclear ...

Excluding costs for plans, the estimated hands ... industrial-base challenges of building both Columbia-class boats and Virginia-class attack submarines (SSNs) at the same time.

But that plan could be at risk. The submarines in both classes are made by the same two shipbuilders, which have pulled workers from Virginia-class production to meet an aggressive Columbia-class ...

The plan said the Columbia-class program is a top priority, as is maintaining the Navy’s advantage in submarines generally. “Nuclear powered ship production, a unique capacity with little to ...

Overall, the Navy plans to invest as much as $130 billion in the new class of nuclear-powered submarines. The funds will go to the research, design, development, and purchase of twelve Columbia ...