Goodrich's Engineered Polymer Products team in Jacksonville, Fla. is building components to support the construction of one ship per year in 2009 and 2010, rising to two ships per year from 2011 through 2013.
The components include the bow dome, and sonar and weapons equipment.
The Virginia class submarines are the first US Navy combatant designed for the post-Cold War era.
Unobtrusive, non-provocative and connected with land, air, sea and space-based assets, the Virginia class submarines are equipped to wage multi-dimensional warfare around the globe, providing the US Navy with continued dominance in coastal waters and the open ocean.
General Dynamics Electric Boat with its construction partner Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding has contracts to build a total of 18 Virginia class ships; 30 ships are planned altogether.