General Dynamics recently appointed Kevin Graney, president of GD National Steel and Shipbuilding Company, as president of GD Electric Boat, effective Oct. 1.
These moves come with Jeffrey Geiger, president of Electric Boat since 2013, scheduled to retire on Sept. 30 after a 35-year career with the company.
“Kevin Graney’s leadership, nuclear propulsion expertise and proven track record with submarine and surface shipbuilding will be essential to Electric Boat as it expands operations to build both the Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine and the next generation of Virginia-class attack submarines,” Robert Smith, executive vice president for GD Marine Systems, said in a statement last week.
Graney started at Electric Boat in 1995 as a senior engineer for the Virginia-class attack submarine program, working his way up to becoming president of National Steel and Shipbuilding in 2017.
General Dynamics Electric Boat is building the Columbia-class ballistic missile submarines that will replace the current fleet of 14 Ohio-class boats with 12 newer ships slated to serve into the 2080s. Both ships will carry Trident II-D5 missiles tipped with a mixture of W76 and W88 nuclear warheads provided by the National Nuclear Security Administration, which also provides the vessels’ nuclear propulsion systems.
This story first appeared in Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor affiliate publication Defense Daily.
