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Sunday, October 26, 2008

Taylor: Northrop hasn't lost destroyer pacts

Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding has not lost the contracts for a half dozen new Navy destroyers, despite a document that was recently quoted by a trade publication, U.S. Rep. Gene Taylor said Friday.

"That was a memo with someone's thoughts floating around the Pentagon," Taylor, D-Bay St. Louis, said. "Nothing is a done deal, and that should not have been released because it was just something someone was merely considering. That should have never left the Pentagon."

The trade publication, Inside the Navy, stated that the U.S. Navy plans to award contracts for six of the proposed eight DDG-51 destroyers to Bath Iron Works in Maine and only two to Northrop Grumman in Pascagoula.

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