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''Montana'' (SSN-794) is a
Virginia-class submarine The ''Virginia'' class, also known as the SSN-774 class, is a class of nuclear-powered cruise missile fast-attack submarines, in service in the United States Navy. Designed by General Dynamics Electric Boat (EB) and Huntington Ingalls Indust ...
of the
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. She will honor the
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of
Montana Montana () is a state in the Mountain West division of the Western United States. It is bordered by Idaho to the west, North Dakota and South Dakota to the east, Wyoming to the south, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columb ...
.
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Ray Mabus Raymond Edwin Mabus Jr. (; born October 11, 1948) is an American politician and lawyer. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 75th United States Secretary of the Navy from 2009 to 2017. Mabus previously served as the State Auditor ...
announced the name on 3 September 2015 at a ceremony hosted in
Billings Billings is the largest city in the U.S. state of Montana, with a population of 117,116 as of the 2020 census. Located in the south-central portion of the state, it is the seat of Yellowstone County and the principal city of the Billings Met ...
, Montana with U.S. Senator
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. A contract modification for , ''Montana'' (SSN-794), and was initially awarded to
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for $594.7 million in April 2012. On 23 December 2014, they were awarded an additional $121.8 million contract modification to buy long lead-time material for the three ''Virginia''-class submarines. The U.S. Navy awarded General Dynamics Electric Boat the contract to construct 10 Block IV ''Virginia''-class submarines for $17.6 billion on 28 April 2014. The tenth boat is scheduled for delivery in 2023. Construction of ''Montana'' began in May 2015 at Huntington Ingalls Newport News Shipbuilding in
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. Contract completion date was expected to be in May 2020, but this was delayed because of the COVID pandemic. Sally Jewell, ''Montana''s sponsor and former U.S. Interior Secretary, christened the vessel on 12 September 2020 at Newport News Shipbuilding, via a virtual ceremony due to the pandemic. ''Montana'' was rolled out on 15 October 2020 and will be delivered to the Navy by mid-2022. She was launched in February 2021, and was commissioned on 25 June 2022 at
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.


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USS Montana Committee


Further reading

* Christley, Jim. ''US Nuclear Submarines: The Fast Attack.'' Oxford: Osprey Pub., 2007. * Clancy, Tom, and John Gresham. ''Submarine: A Guided Tour Inside a Nuclear Warship.'' New York, N.Y.: Berkley Books, 2002. Virginia-class submarines Nuclear submarines of the United States Navy {{US-submarine-stub