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Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Will Bath Build Second DDG 1000?

Four years after Congress ripped apart a U.S. Navy winner-take-all scheme for building new DDG 1000 Zumwalt-class destroyers, the service and its two chief shipbuilders might be poised for a scaled-down agreement to shift construction of the first two ships from each shipyard to just one yard.

The result would be that the General Dynamics Bath Iron Works shipyard in Bath, Maine - poised to begin fabrication of DDG 1000 in February could wind up building that ship and DDG 1001, the Michael Monsour.

Northrop Grumman's Ingalls shipyard in Pascagoula, Miss., scheduled to begin fabrication of DDG 1001 this fall, would in turn receive more of the additional DDG 51 Arleigh Burke-class destroyers the Navy now intends to build.

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