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Monday, June 03, 2013

Navy to award destroyer contracts to BIW, Ingalls by Tuesday

USS William P Lawrence (DDG-110)Bath Iron Works officials expect to hear by Tuesday how many DDG-51 destroyers will be built in the next five years at the Bath shipyard and how many will be built at Ingalls Shipbuilding in Gulfport, Miss.

The Department of the Navy notified Maine Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King on May 3 that contracts for up to 10 ships would be awarded by June 4.

The shipyards account for only part of the approximately $1 billion cost of each ship, according to BIW spokesman Jim DeMartini. But the contracts to be awarded will mean billions in contracts for both Bath Iron Works and Ingalls.

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