History
When BAE Systems was created in 1999 the three former Marconi Marine-owned shipyards at Barrow-in-Furness and Glasgow were vested in BAE Systems Marine.
In 2003 BAE Systems Marine was split into two separate subsidiaries; the two Glasgow shipyards at Scotstoun (formerly YSL) and Govan (formerly Kvaerner Govan Ltd) were transferred to BAE Systems Naval Ships. The third yard at Barrow-in-Furness became BAE Systems Submarines. This reorganisation was "to provide a focus on the UK and export surface warship building market."
On 1 January 2007 BAE Systems Naval Ships was merged with the naval section of BAE Systems Customer Solutions & Support to become BAE Systems Surface Fleet Solutions. CS&S Naval provided maintenance, repairs, minor and major refits for naval vessels. Past projects include reactivation of the Upholder class, now reactivated as the Victoria Class submarines for the Canadian Government, and Vanguard class upgrades. CS&S Naval has completed the reactivation of the Royal Navy's Type 22 Frigates for Romania and has worked on a similar programme for Chile involving the refurbishment of three ex-Royal Navy Type 23 frigates.
On 1 July 2008 BAE Systems Surface Fleet Solutions merged with Portsmouth-based VT Shipbuilding to form BVT Surface Fleet, a joint venture between BAE Systems and VT Group, which subsequently became BAE Systems Surface Ships in 2009.
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