[2] The previous name holder was the Iowa-class battleship USS Wisconsin (BB-64), which decommissioned in 1991 and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register in 2006.

[3] On October 28, 2020, Secretary of the Navy Kenneth J. Braithwaite announced that the second Columbia-class submarine would bear the name Wisconsin.

Senators Tammy Baldwin and Ron Johnson,[5] who cited Wisconsin's history of shipbuilding as a reason to name a new submarine after the state.

Construction of the lead boat USS District of Columbia (SSBN-826) officially began on October 1, 2020.

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