The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln is shown participating in a strait transit exercise with in 2007 [Photo: U.S. Navy]
The extended agreement with Virginia-based BWX Technologies is only the latest of decades of moves by ATI to support the nuclear propulsion program—which maintains "cradle-to-grave" responsibility for the research, design, construction, operation, maintenance, and eventual disposal of all nuclear reactors used in U.S. Navy submarines and aircraft carriers.