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Early Efforts Should Help DDG-1000 Production Avoid Other Programs’ Pitfalls

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By Geoff Fein As construction on DDG-1000 gets underway in the coming year, the Navy and the two shipyards heading up the effort will have a design that is significantly further along than any previous surface combatant has ever been, according to a Navy official. When the Navy awarded the construction contracts last month to General Dynamics [GD] Bath Iron Works and Northrop Grumman [NOC] Shipbuilding, DDG-1000 design was more than halfway complete, Capt. Jim Syring, DDG-1000 program manager, told…

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