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Navy Funds Two of Three FY ’16 Arleigh Burke-Class Destroyers

Valerie Insinna

Wednesday, March 30th, 2016

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Navy Funds Two of Three FY ’16 Arleigh Burke-Class Destroyers

The Navy on Wednesday funded two of the Arleigh Burke-class destroyers it procured in fiscal year 2016, with one ship for Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII] Ingalls Shipbuilding and another for General Dynamics [GD] Bath Iron Works (BIW).The service in 2013 previously awarded each of the shipbuilders multiyear procurement contracts for FY '13-'17 for five destroyers each. This funding pays for the seventh and eighth ships under that buy, which will be in the Flight IIA configuration, according to a Naval…

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