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 ...

More: Electric Boat secures $9.5 billion submarine contract with U.S. Navy The question beneath: Why do we need these ships? The contest, known as the Project MFG Rhode Island Maritime Welding ...

A welder at Electric Boat. DANIEL PASSAPERA/AP. Crew members line up along the USS Oregon during the submarine's commissioning ceremony Saturday, May 28, 2022, in Groton, Conn. ...

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.

Electric Boat is ramping up to meet that national security challenge, a challenge Adam Chioccola and Emma Isbell are happy to take on, who joined the company as new welders 18 months ago.

Electric Boat’s hiring of several thousand workers in the past few years highlights the acute need in the post-pandemic era for newcomers in the manufacturing sector, ... welding and ship-fitting.

Submarine work is on the upswing once again, and eastern CT — home of the Electric Boat campus in Groton — is steadying for the boom.

Groton, Connecticut — Electric Boat hired 3,700 shipbuilders last year. It wants to hire more than 5,000 this year and just as many every year for decades into the future. Last spring, it hired ...

Here are the winners in the New Hampshire Maritime Welding Competition. ... Project MFG, General Dynamics Electric Boat, and the Community College System of NH. ...

Apr. 1—Editor's note: This is the first in an occasional series about how the region is prepared for a tremendous period of growth at Electric Boat. Groton ― As Electric Boat ramps up hiring ...

MIDDLETOWN — Vinal Technical High School welcomed representatives from General Dynamics Electric Boat Feb. 24 during an interview and hiring day. The event was open to all senior students within ...