
The Navy last week awarded contracts to General Dynamics [GD] Bath Iron Works (BIW) and HII's [HII] Ingalls Shipbuilding segment for engineering and design analysis for the next generation guided-missile destroyer, DDG(X). The July 22 Defense Department contract announcement did not disclose the specific contract values because they are “considered source-selection sensitive information and will not be made public at this time.” These contracts specifically cover the “shipbuilder engineering and design analysis in order to produce design products in support…