Novakovic: Ohio replacement program 'kind of blocks the sun for us'

By Marjorie Censer / June 3, 2016 at 12:44 PM
General Dynamics is ramping up its work on the Ohio-class replacement program, a Navy initiative so large that the contractor's chief executive joked Friday that it “kind of blocks the sun for us.” “This is a very important program for us -- now and growing in the future,” Phebe Novakovic said at Sanford C. Bernstein's strategic decisions conference in New York. “This is a $100 billion program, and we are the prime.” As Inside Defense has reported, Navy leaders...

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