Navy puts $46M more into BIW’s Zumwalt destroyer build

Bath Iron Works Corp. has landed $45.8 million from the U.S. Navy for the design and construction of destroyer ships, according to the U.S. Department of Defense.

The deal is a modification to a previously won contract for detail design and construction of the DDG 1000 Zumwalt Class Destroyer. Work on the contract will be performed in Bath, Maine, and is expected to be completed by November 2010.

Bath Iron Works is a ship-building division of defense giant General Dynamics Co.

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