NORTH KINGSTOWN – A North Carolina company that provides specialty welding services to nuclear submarine builder General Dynamics Electric Boat has told state officials that it will lay off 117 ...

PROVIDENCE – In a competition sponsored by nuclear submarine builder General Dynamics Electric Boat, high-school welding students raced the clock on Monday to see who could build the best submarine.

The U.S. Navy needs a new fleet of ballistic missile submarines, a $112 billion acquisition its leaders have called “foundational to our survival.” In the coming decades, those ships will take ...

Electric Boat has 18,000 employees in Virginia, Connecticut and Rhode Island, and expects to be recruiting welders, machinists, pipefitters, and electricians for decades to come. "Our need to hire ...

Electric Boat designed both classes ... “So we have second graders welding with Cheez Whiz and crackers. We are really trying to capture their interest and help them understand that we are ...

welding and ship-fitting. In the ensuing nine years, about 4,000 people who have participated in MPI courses have been hired by Electric Boat and about 50 other companies that operate in eastern ...

Electric Boat announced last month that it is expecting ... in the skilled trades involved in building submarines, such as welders, pipe fitters, carpenters, and machinists, as well as some ...

In 2033, the people we're hiring, some of them are in the fifth grade right now," said Courtney Murphy, director of talent management for Electric Boat. Murphy says trade workers, welders and ...

Kelly Ayotte and Manchester Mayor Jay Ruais, the Project MFG Maritime Welding event brought together the local community and submarine shipbuilding suppliers. General Dynamics Electric Boat ...

Students were offered the following positions: welder, marine mechanic (outside ... a formal interview with a General Dynamics Electric Boat representative. Finally, students were then offered ...

Nichols Brothers Boat Builders urged Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson Wednesday to allow two companies to build the state's new electric fleet.