A description of three characters and an end date in 2035 — the single supplier of submarine reactors
A Navy contract with Bechtel Plant Machinery carrying an obligated value of about $2.543 billion. The description is the three characters S9G, the designation of the reactor plant carried by Virginia class nuclear submarines. The period runs to September 2035, among the furthest end dates in the records this site holds as of 2026-09-02.
Contract key facts
- RecipientBECHTEL PLANT MACHINERY, INC.
- Contract value$2,542,667,076 (≈$2.54B)
- BranchNavy
- Awarding agencyDepartment of Defense
- Awarding sub-agencyDepartment of the Navy
- Award typeDEFINITIVE CONTRACT
- Period of performance2023-12-22 〜 2035-09-30
- Contract ID (PIID)N0002424C2114
Contract scope (original)
S9G
Key points
- Obligated value is about $2.543 billion; the recipient is Bechtel Plant Machinery, the branch is the Navy, and the period runs December 2023 to September 2035.
- The description is the three characters S9G, the reactor plant designation carried by Virginia class nuclear submarines.
- An end date in 2035 is among the furthest across the 207 defense contracts this site holds as of 2026-09-02.
- Reactor plants are arranged years ahead in step with construction plans, so the heart of the ship goes into production before the hull.
- Licensing, dedicated facilities and accumulated skill limit suppliers severely, making competitive bidding hard to sustain.
1Three characters are enough
The description field holds only S9G. Among the defense contract records this site covers, description fields are often empty or code strings; this is short but a meaningful designation. Naval reactor designations follow a rule expressing the design generation and the designer, and S9G names the plant carried by Virginia class nuclear submarines.
Three characters suffice for those inside the field, while leaving an outside reader with extremely little to go on.
2An end date in 2035
An end date in 2035 is among the furthest in the records this site holds as of 2026-09-02. Reactor plants have to be arranged years ahead in step with submarine construction plans, so contracts extend far into the future. The heart of the ship goes into production before construction of the hull begins.
3A structure with one supplier
Propulsion plants for nuclear vessels can be designed, built and maintained by only a very small number of firms, requiring licensing to handle nuclear material, dedicated facilities and decades of accumulated skill. In the records this site holds, this recipient appears as one of the 50 recipient names among defense contracts.
Where competitive bidding cannot readily function, how to confirm that pricing is reasonable becomes the procurement side problem.
4What the record yields
Total outlays on the record are $0, a state shared by 115 of the 207 records (56 percent) this site holds as of 2026-09-02. Given that the contract began only in 2023, outlays plausibly lie ahead, though the record says nothing about that prospect. This site presents what the record states.
Why it matters
Where suppliers are limited to one, confirming that pricing is reasonable becomes the procurement side problem. That the heart of a ship enters production before its hull is also worth holding when reading the supply chain.
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- Contract ID (PIID)：N0002424C2114