08/24/2026
Today, NEIT and General Dynamics Electric Boat announced a major expansion of our workforce partnership through the new Shipbuilding Advanced Institute for Learning (SAIL) to prepare the next generation of submarine industry talent.
NEIT’s Post Road campus will triple its training space from 30,000 to 100,000 square feet becoming Electric Boat’s primary workforce training center in Rhode Island.
SAIL will train approximately 3,000 new EB hires each year, with more than 20 classrooms supporting hands-on training in welding, shipfitting, pipefitting, machining, sheet metal, paint and electrical.
For more than a decade, NEIT and Electric Boat have worked together to prepare skilled workers for the submarine industry. More than 4,500 new Electric Boat employees have already trained at NEIT, with thousands more career employees completing continuing education.
We’re now significantly expanding that work to help meet the demand for 8,000 new Electric Boat employees.
Read more: https://www.neit.edu/neit-stories/electric-boat-and-new-england-institute-of-technology-announce-major-expansion-of-shipbuilding-training