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Northrop Grumman Awards Bath Iron Works Construction Work On LPD-24

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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

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By Geoff Fein Northrop Grumman [NOC] is outsourcing construction of modules for the USS Arlington (LPD-24) to General Dynamics' [GD] Bath Iron Works to meet shipbuilding schedule commitments and help stabilize the shipbuilding industrial base, according to a Northrop Grumman official. "Outsourcing certain parts of the work had been in our plan from the original contract structure," Irwin Edenzon, vice president and general manager for Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding, Gulf Coast, told Defense Daily in an interview earlier this week. "When…

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