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Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Navy promises advance DDG-1000 destroyer work funding to BIW to prevent layoffs

Zumwalt class destroyerThe long-term details aren’t all worked out yet, but the Navy will send enough money to Bath Iron Works to avoid lay-offs at least through April while contracts are finalized for two more DDG-1000 destroyers.

Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-1st, said she got that promise earlier today from Navy Secretary Ray Mabus.

Pingree is on the House Armed Services Committee. Both she and Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, who is on the Senate Armed Services Committee, have been urging the Navy to move forward on awarding the contracts for the new destroyers.

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