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General Dynamics Corporation -- Moody's: General Dynamics' Virginia-Class Submarine Contract is Credit Positive
New York, April 29, 2014 -- Moody's Investors Service said that the 28 April announcement by General Dynamics Corporation (A2 stable) that its wholly-owned subsidiary General Dynamics Electric Boat had received a contract for 10 Block IV Virginia-class submarines worth approximately $17.6 billion is a credit positive development, for both General Dynamics and Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc. (Ba2 positive), which through a teaming agreement performs roughly half of the work as the principal subcontractor on the program.