 Welcome to All Hands Update, I'm Petty Officer Jen Blake. The Navy's newest submarine, USS North Dakota, joined the fleet in a commissioning ceremony October 25th at Naval Submarine Base, New London. The North Dakota is the 11th Virginia class submarine and has upgrades designed to lower cost and increase missile firing payload possibilities. They're nuclear powered, limited only by the amount of food that we can put on board them. Power, firepower of torpedoes, missiles, mines, and unmanned underwater vehicles that can deliver in their own right anything from sensors to weapons. And as I said before, they bring us intelligence, they bring us surveillance, and they give us reconnaissance. Hundreds of citizens from the state of North Dakota, including the governor and senators attended the ceremony. For more information about Naval Submarine Base, New London, visit their website.