Military Ship & Submarine Manufacturing Industry Competitors

If you happen to be a military or commercial sea-faring craft, Babcock Marine (formerly DML Group) has an open dock with your name on it. The company provides a range of design, build, and support services that include refitting, maintenance, and conversion possibilities....

BAE Submarine Solutions is a business unit of the BAE SYSTEMS' naval systems program. BAE Systems Submarines is the prime contractor for the Astute Class of nuclear-powered attack submarines being built for the UK Ministry of Defence. Touted as being more flexible, mobile, and stealthy than previous submarines, the Astute is also powered by an onboard nuclear power plant that will require no refueling....

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Direction des Constructions Navales (DCN) could stand for defense, combat, and naval know-how. The state-controlled shipbuilder makes warships for major naval defense programs--and traces its history back some 400 years. DCN's products include aircraft carriers, frigates, attack and nuclear submarines, and a range of weapons systems and simulators....

Hanjin Heavy Industries steers its course toward shipbuilding, but the seafaring giant has other ports of call as well. One of the world's leading shipbuilders, Hanjin produces cargo ships, passenger ships, war ships, special-purpose ships (such as ice-breakers and rescue boats), oil-drilling rigs, and other offshore structures....

On the ocean's surface or under it, ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems brings German industrial muscle to shipbuilding. The company oversees the varied shipyard functions of the ThyssenKrupp Technologies unit of global industrial giant ThyssenKrupp AG....

VT Shipbuilding has been shaping up ships for more than a hundred years. The company, a subsidiary of VT Group, has designed and built about 300 ships for more than 30 navies, including the Royal Navy, during the past 30 years....

AMSEC allows the navy to run a tight ship. The company supplies naval architecture and marine engineering services to commercial companies and the US Navy. With more than 20 locations near domestic US naval and marine industrial bases, AMSEC's technical staff provides engineering, logistics, technical support, and maintenance services for virtually any shipboard system on a variety of ships, including aircraft carriers and submarines....

A giant white whale is no match for contractor BAE Systems Ship Repair. The company, a leading nonnuclear ship repair firm, operates facilities at the US Navy's principal ports: Norfork, Virginia, the home of the Atlantic Fleet; and San Diego, the home of the Pacific Fleet....

Rub-a-dub-dub, Bath Iron Works (BIW) builds some really high-tech tubs. The company, which became a subsidiary of General Dynamics in 1995, constructs surface ships for the US Navy. BIW is the lead designer and builder for the Arleigh Burke Class AEGIS guided-missile destroyer, is designing the next-generation DD(X) land attack destroyer, and is part of the team developing the LPD-17 amphibious assault ship....

The name's a mite understated: Electric Boat designs, builds, and maintains nuclear attack and ballistic-missile submarines for the US Navy. A subsidiary of defense giant General Dynamics, Electric Boat was established in 1899 and won its first US Navy contract the next year....

For the past 40 years, Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding (formerly Northrop Grumman Newport News) has been the only builder of the US Navy's aircraft carriers (it's also one of only two nuclear sub builders -- the other is General Dynamics)....

Ships made by VT Group (formerly Vosper Thornycroft) are riding high on the waves of the seven seas. Launching naval vessels for more than 100 years, Vosper and Thornycroft merged in 1966 to form VT Group. Through subsidiaries, VT has set a course for adding support services and marine products to its line....