Not enough business for submarine builders.

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There are empty spaces and unused workstations inside the bays at General Dynamics Electric Boat, where many of the U.S. Navy's nuclear-powered submarines have been designed and built.

The company stood up its Quonset Point facility to handle up to three ships per year. But the Navy has decided to delay the purchase of one Virginia-class attack submarine, straying from a schedule of building two per year

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"There is excess capacity in every shop we have/' said Bruce Hart, site manager at the Quonset Point facility.

Electric Boat executives recently attended a submarine industrial base meeting in Washington, D.C. They...