Naval Submarine force levels, and has a total lifecycle cost for the entire class estimated at $347 billion. The Columbia class submarine is essential in order to maintain the U.S. The ceremony marked the ceremonial construction start of the Columbia-class that’s expected to commission in 2027. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) declared the keel laid for the future USS District of Columbia (SSBN-826). On October 28, 2020, it was announced by the Secretary of the Navy that the second Columbia-class submarine will be named the USS Wisconsin (SSBN-827).
The lead submarine will be the USS District of Columbia (SSBN-826). The Columbia-class was officially designated on 14 December 2016, by Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus. Since then, the program has been referred to as the Columbia Class program, and the boats as Columbia-Class Submarines. On July 28, 2016, it was reported that the first boat in the class will be named Columbia in honor of the District of Columbia. Some budget documents continue to use these terms. Boats in the class were referred to as Ohio replacement boats or SSBNXs. The Columbia-class program was known as the Ohio Replacement Program (ORP) or SSBN(X) program until 2016.
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The Navy has also planned the Columbia-class to be fitted with the most "up-to-date capabilities and stealth" to ensure they are survivable throughout their full 40-year life span. The Columbia-Class Submarine will be larger than the Ohio-class design in terms of submerged displacement, and therefore will be the largest submarine ever built by the United States. As the Navy’s top priority, the Columbia-class program will remain funded even at the expense of funding other Navy programs. The Navy has identified the Columbia-class program as its top priority program, and wants to procure the first Columbia-class boat in 2021. Starting in 2031, the Navy plans to replace each retiring Ohio-class boat with a new Columbia-class SSBN submarine. As the Ohio-class SSBNs were first deployed in 1981, they will start reaching the end of their service between 20, at a rate of about one boat per year. The Ohio-class submarines were designed to have a service life of 42 years (two 20-year cycles with a 2-year midlife nuclear refueling period). Currently Bill serves as a volunteer on the Board of Directors of the Lutheran Military Support Group and River City Volleyball Club.The Columbia-class program's goal is to design and build a class of 12 new ballistic missile submarines ( SSBNs) to replace the Navy’s current force of 14 aging Ohio-class SSBNs. As part of his work, he lea the establishment of new NPO/NGO’s in four other countries.
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He holds a Professional Certificate in Non-profit Management from UWM and has helped four American NPO’s reinvent themselves starting with new Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws and restated mission and purpose. In November 2010 he become the President & CEO of Kingdom Workers which has grown from 9 co-workers in 2011 to over 30 in 2021, working in ten countries. His three oldest daughters were born in Malawi where his family lived for six years. Bill received a bachelors degree in Chemistry from Wisconsin Lutheran College and then worked as an Operations Supervisor for Wisconsin Electric (now We Energies).īill entered Christian mission work in 2001 and has lived in Zambia, Cameroon, Portugal, and Malawi. He stayed in power generation after leaving the Navy in 1993.
Bill enlisted in the US Navy nuclear power program in 1986, serving as an electrician at the S8G Nuclear Prototype and on the USS Oklahoma City, SSN 723.
Grew up on a hog and grain farm in Bristol, WI and currently lives in Watertown, WI with his wife and five daughters. Bill Meier Wisconsin, Submarines, Non-profits!
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