BATH — Bath Iron Works announced that it will be eliminating 160 positions, including 30 layoffs. “This action will result in 30 employees being laid off. The remaining reductions will be realized through retirements, transfers, resignations and cancelled job postings,” said the company in a statement. “We regret the impact this will have on employees […]
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BIW loses $10 billion Coast Guard contract
BATH — The U.S. Coast Guard selected a Florida shipyard for a crucial contract to build Coast Guard cutters, dealing a blow Thursday to the workforce at Bath Iron Works, which needed it to stave off job cuts. The Coast Guard announced that it selected Eastern Shipbuilding in Panama City, Florida, for the next phase of […]
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See what the USS Zumwalt looks like inside
The 610-foot-long warship has an angular shape to minimize its radar signature and cost more than $4.4 billion. It’s the most expensive destroyer built for the Navy. It’s headed from Naval Station Newport to Baltimore, where it will be commissioned in October before going to its homeport in San Diego. It was built at Bath […]
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Video: USS Zumwalt sails from BIW to join U.S. fleet
BATH — The nation’s largest and most technologically sophisticated destroyer will join the Navy with a crew that’s the smallest of any destroyer built since the 1930s thanks to extensive automation. The stealthy Zumwalt departed Wednesday from Bath Iron Works to head to its commissioning ceremony with a crew of 147 officers and sailors that […]
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BIW-made Zumwalt destroyer now in U.S. Navy
BATH — The stealthy Zumwalt is now property of the U.S. Navy. The Navy assumed ownership of the 610-foot destroyer Friday after signing off on extensive inspections, tests and builder sea trials. Sailors can now move aboard the ship. Rear Adm. Jim Downie, program manager, called it “a significant achievement” both for the Navy and […]
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Zumwalt returns to BIW after more sea trials
BATH — The future USS Zumwalt is moving closer to delivery to the U.S. Navy. The Navy announced Thursday that the 610-foot destroyer had returned to Bath Iron Works after two days of at-sea acceptance trials aimed at conducting final evaluations before the Navy takes delivery. A spokesman for the Naval Sea Systems Commander said […]
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BIW on track to deliver Zumwalt to Navy almost 3 years late
General Dynamics Corp.’s stealthy, electric-powered destroyer for the Navy will be delivered almost three years late, according to the Pentagon’s latest schedule. The Navy now estimates delivery of the DDG-1000, the first of three Zumwalt-class vessels in a $22.4 billion program, by midyear, according to the Defense Department’s annual “Selected Acquisition Report” on the program. […]
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USS Zumwalt returns to BIW after sea trials
BATH — The stealthy Zumwalt destroyer has completed builder trials and is on track for the next milestone before delivery to the Navy — acceptance trials and inspection starting next month, officials said Friday. The 600-foot destroyer, the largest ever built for the U.S. Navy, spent three days in the rough North Atlantic before returning late […]
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U.S. Navy won’t have electric guns installed at BIW
BATH — The Navy is still considering putting an electric-powered gun aboard a Maine-built destroyer, but the futuristic weapon would be installed after the ship is built, a top Navy officer said. The construction schedule is too far along to install an electromagnetic railgun aboard the Lyndon B. Johnson at Bath Iron Works, “but it’s […]
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USS Zumwalt leaves BIW again for sea trials
BATH — The nation’s largest and most expensive destroyer headed out to sea Monday for final builder trials before being presented to the Navy for inspection. Engineers and technicians at Bath Iron Works are going to focus on propulsion, mobility and safety to ensure the future USS Zumwalt is shipshape before the next trials, in which […]