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- Babcock International secured its U.S. Navy Virginia-class submarine contract, the first outsourced work on a U.S. attack submarine.
- The contract tasks Babcock with producing complex Block VI Virginia-class assemblies at Rosyth, Scotland.
- The award expands the Common Missile Compartment programme that already serves the Royal Navy Dreadnought-class and U.S. Columbia-class ballistic-missile submarines.
- U.S. shipyards’ workforce and supply-chain gaps have prompted the Navy to seek allied capacity for its build schedule.
