As ship sponsor Rebecca W. Gates (wife of defense secretary Robert M. Gates) and Electric Boat President John P. Casey look on, Caesar DeSanto welds Gates’ initials onto a steel plate to be installed on the Missouri, the latest Virginia-class submarine in the U.S. Navy’s fleet to be built at EB’s Quonset Point facility. /
As ship sponsor Rebecca W. Gates (wife of defense secretary Robert M. Gates) and Electric Boat President John P. Casey look on, Caesar DeSanto welds Gates’ initials onto a steel plate to be installed on the Missouri, the latest Virginia-class submarine in the U.S. Navy’s fleet to be built at EB’s Quonset Point facility.