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Navy Funds General Dynamics For Destroyer

Defense Daily Staff

Wednesday, April 1st, 2015

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Navy Funds General Dynamics For Destroyer

U.S. Navy photo of the USS McCampbell (DDG-85)

The Navy has issued General Dynamics [GD] Bath Iron Works $610 million in funding for the construction of an Arleigh Burke-class (DDG-51) destroyer.The funding is for hull number 122 in the class of guided missile destroyers, and is part of a multi-year procurement for the ships with General Dynamics and Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII], which builds the vessels in Pascagoula, Miss.The Navy has issued a $604 million contract to HII’s Ingalls unit for construction of hull number 121 that was…

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