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Navy/USMC

Bath Iron Works Nabs $911 Million Award To Build Fifth DDG Flight III

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2019

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Bath Iron Works Nabs $911 Million Award To Build Fifth DDG Flight III

The future Arleigh Burke-class USS Ralph Johnson (DDG-114) guided-missile destroyer during builder’s seat trials in the Gulf of Mexico. A House bill would require (Photo: U.S. Navy)

The Naval Sea Systems Command awarded General Dynamics’ [GD] Bath Iron Works (BIW) a $911 million modification to exercise an FY 2019 option to build the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer DDG-132. General Dynamics underscored this is the fifth DDG-51 ship under a multi-year award first announced in September. While BIW won four ships and Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII] won five ships in the earlier award, the Navy held a separate competition for an additional option destroyer, which BIW has now won…

Congress

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Army

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