
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…