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Tuesday, April 29, 2014

In Wake of Zumwalt Launch, Higher Costs Seen in DDG-1000 Program

Zumwalt (DDG1000) class DDGA couple of weeks ago, the world's most advanced warship, the USS Zumwalt, formally hit the water at a christening ceremony at Bath Iron Works.

The midcoast shipyard is due to build two more of the DDG-1000 destroyers for the U.S. Navy over the next several years.

The program, however, has ended up being much more costly than originally intended, in part because it was drastically cut back a few years ago from 32 ships to just three.

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