Chaos, cash and COVID-19: How the defense industry survived and thrived during the pandemic
By: Aaron Mehta and Valerie Insinna March 15
Photo credit: Sgt. Wesley Timm/U.S. Marine Corps Photo credit: Sgt. Wesley Timm/U.S. Marine Corps WASHINGTON U.S. Air Force leaders faced a dilemma. The service needed a key raw material from Italy for one of its critical nuclear modernization programs. But in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, as industrial facilities shut down and transit between nations slowed, it was unclear how the material could reach the United States. Air Force officials were so worried that they eventually authorized military aircraft to fly to Italy to pick up the remaining supply in person, averting an interruption in one of the nation’s most strategic weapons programs.
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Montana (SSN-794) was christened in a ceremony at Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) Newport News Shipbuilding Division. Construction of the boat began in 2015, and the submarine is on schedule to be delivered to the U.S. Navy by the end of 2021.
The submarine will be only the second U.S. Navy vessel named in honor of the Big Sky state – which is the fourth largest in size but is also the 8th least populous. Previously, only the
Tennessee-class cruiser carried the name USS
Montana (ACR-13), and while she escorted convoys during the First World War, the vessel was eventually renamed and reclassified as the USS Missoula (CA-13) in the reserve fleet.
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