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Tuesday, June 10, 2008

DDG-1000 opponent challenges $2.6B cost estimates

One of the most vocal opponents of the DDG-1000 destroyer program wrote Friday that he would "remove my objections" if the new destroyers could be built for just $2.6 billion apiece. But U.S. Rep. Gene Taylor, D-Miss., doubts that can be done.

Taylor wrote a letter Friday to John Young, undersecretary of defense for acquisition, in response to Young's testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee earlier in the week.

"(Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead) estimates that DDG-1002 (the third ship in the series) and follow-on ships could be built for $2.6 billion per ship," wrote Taylor. "I would remove my objections to the DDG-1000 program if you could certify that any shipbuilder would be willing to enter into a firm fixed-price contract at that cost.

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