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Navy/USMC

Navy Nearing Multi-Year Destroyer Contract That Ramps Production To Three Ships Per Year

Tuesday, April 10th, 2018

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Navy Nearing Multi-Year Destroyer Contract That Ramps Production To Three Ships Per Year

An Mk 41 VLS launches an SM-6 off the USS John Paul Jones (DDG-53). (Photo: U.S. Navy)

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. -- The Navy is nearing a multi-year procurement deal for Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyers that would take production out to fiscal 2022 and ramp production back up to three deliveries per year.Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII] and General Dynamics Bath Iron Works [GD] are competing for the multi-year contract to build DDG-51s through fiscal 2023. A request for proposals was issued in February and the Navy expects those proposals in the next few weeks, according to DDG-51…

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