Submarine manufacturer Electric Boat said Monday it plans to hire more than 3,000 workers this year, a 20% increase over 2021 as U.S. military strategy faces rising threats from China and Russia.
“Our need to hire is persistent and it will continue as far as the eye can see,” Kevin Graney, president of Electric Boat, a subsidiary of General Dynamics Corp., said at the manufacturer’s annual legislative briefing.
EB, with shipyards in Groton, Connecticut, and Quonset Point, Rhode Island, has been on a hiring spree for years in what Graney called a “once in a generation” expansion building Virginia-class attack submarines and ramping up construction of the next-generation ballistic submarine, the Columbia.
