BATH – The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense on Sunday approved $100 million in funding to allow Bath Iron Works to begin building a fifth DDG-51 destroyer. The funding was included in the National Defense Authorization Act, which President Barack Obama signed in December, but the appropriations committee still had to appropriate the funding. In […]
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Delegation pushing for $100M to start new destroyer at BIW
BATH — A leading defense industry analyst said Tuesday that Bath Iron Works is likely to secure the first $100 million the shipyard needs to build a DDG 51 destroyer that lacked funding because of last year’s automatic federal budget cuts. In June, the Department of Defense awarded contracts for nine of Arleigh Burke-class guided […]
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No injuries or ‘serious damage’ from fire aboard destroyer at BIW
BATH — A fire on a destroyer under construction at Bath Iron Works was extinguished without injuries Monday night, a BIW spokesman said. The fire, which was reported at approximately 7:30 p.m., occurred in an empty storage tank on the DDG-1001, the future USS Michael Monsoor, BIW spokesman Jim DeMartini said from the scene. Reports […]
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BIW finishes work on first stealthy destroyer
BATH (AP) — An enormous and technology-laden warship that’s taking shape at Maine’s Bath Iron Works is due to be christened in October. The shipyard said the event will be held on Oct. 19 for the Zumwalt, first of a new class of destroyers that’s the largest ever built for the U.S. Navy. Once derided […]