
The U.S. Navy awarded General Dynamics [GD] Bath Iron Works (BIW) a contract to plan and build two Arleigh Burke-class destroyers (DDG-51), including the second Flight III destroyer, the Defense Department said in a Thursday announcement.GD was awarded a firm-fixed-price-incentive-firm target modification to a previously awarded contract to incorporate the Flight III configuration for the future USS Louis H. Wilson, Jr. (DDG-126) and also the current Flight IIA configuration for DDG-127.DDG-51 Flight III configuration incorporates the Raytheon [RTN] SPY-6 Air…