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Taylor Vexed By Reports of DDG-51 Acquisition Weighted Toward GD

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Friday, October 24th, 2008

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By Emelie Rutherford Rep. Gene Taylor (D-Miss.) said he is "troubled" about reports the Navy has weighed granting more of the work on a potential new batch of DDG-51 destroyers to General Dynamics' [GD] Bath Iron Works (BIW) in Maine than to Northrop Grumman's [NOC] Ingalls shipyard in Mississippi. "I find it troubling that the Navy is contemplating such a drastic action without consultation with Congress," Taylor, the chairman of the House Armed Services Seapower subcommittee, wrote in a letter…

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