The Navy is aiming to award the detail design and construction contract for the Ohio-replacement ballistic missile submarine program by the first day of fiscal year 2017, according to the service's submarine program manager. The government is exchanging questions and answers with the Ohio-replacement prime contractor, General Dynamics Electric Boat, and will go into "hardcore negotiations" with the company later this summer, according to Rear Adm. Michael Jabaley, program executive officer for submarines. He said the Navy's goal is to...
