Navy on track to beat VPM cost targets, set to forge first tube prototype in October

By Jason Sherman Lee Hudson / September 23, 2016 at 5:23 PM
The Navy is on track to beat cost targets set by Pentagon brass in 2013 to design and build the Virginia Payload Module -- the centerpiece of a project to stretch the length of the service's premier attack submarines by more than 80 feet and insert new tubes with the capacity to launch cruise missiles and more. The Navy estimates -- in a July 29 report delivered to Congress last month -- that by the time VPM construction begins in...

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