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The U.S. Navy needs a new fleet of ballistic missile submarines, a $112 billion acquisition its leaders have called “foundational to our survival.”  In the coming decades, those ships will take shape, one by one, inside an enormous new facility at the General Dynamics Electric Boat campus on the Thames River in Groton, with the help of thousands of newly minted welders, ship-fitters and mechanics mobilized from eastern Connecticut and beyond.

“The sheer volume and complexity of work that we’re infusing into the submarine industrial base is something that we haven’t had in a very long time,” said Whitney Jones, director of the Submarine Industrial Base initiative at U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal and the president of Bristol manufacturer Arthur G. Russell Co. touted possible public/private partnerships in manufacturing training programs at an event supporting the federal Endless Frontier bill. The bipartisan bill currently in the U.S. Senate would, among other features, quadruple funding for the federal Manufacturing Extension Partnership, a public-private partnership focused on helping small and medium-sized manufacturers increase their competitiveness on the global stage.  If passed, the MEP would receive $2.4 billion in funding from the 2022 fiscal year -- ...