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Full Speed Ahead
Murphy leads Electric Boat's 'once-in-a-
generation' hiring spree
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BY NORMAN BELL
e sounds of growth are sweeping across southeast Connecticut
and adjacent Rhode Island.
And the catalyst is Electric Boat, the submarine builder with
assembly, design and maintenance facilities in Groton and New
London, as well as module manufacturing facilities at Quonset
Point, Rhode Island.
Electric Boat — owned by publicly traded defense contractor
General Dynamics, which reported $39.4 billion in revenue in 2022
— opened for business in Groton in 1899, and delivered its first
submarine to the government a year later.
Across the next 123 years, the company and its host communities
have been riding the roller coaster that is defense contracting.
But a change in strategy during the Obama years calls for
construction of three nuclear submarines — two Virginia class and
one of the new Columbia class ballistic missile boats — each year
for the foreseeable future. e larger plan is for 70% of the country's
Courtney Murphy is in
charge of overseeing
a massive hiring spree
at submarine maker
Electric Boat, which is
projected to add nearly
6,000 new employees
this year.
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