Nuclear-powered sub Boise, docked since 2017, may get funds for overhaul by end of this year
The Los Angeles-class sub has become a "poster child" for maintenance backlog, lawmaker says.
By JUSTIN KATZ
on March 17, 2023 at 2:55 PM
WASHINGTON — The nuclear-powered attack submarine Boise (SSN-764) will remain in port for at least another year as the Navy eyes funding its long awaited maintenance availability at the end of 2023, a service spokesman told Breaking Defense.
The Navy’s new fiscal 2024 budget request includes funds to conduct an engineered overhaul of the Boise, a Los Angeles-class sub that launched back in 1991 but has sat in port since 2017 when a series of delays ultimately denied a timely maintenance availability at a public shipyard.
The boat has become the “poster child” for the Navy’s ship maintenance backlog, Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., said during a confirmation hearing this week for Nickolas Guertin, the president’s nominee to be the Navy’s acquisition executive.
https://breakingdefense.com/2023/03/nuclear-powered-sub-boise-docked-since-2017-may-get-funds-for-overhaul-by-end-of-this-year/
