BIW nets $70M upgrade contract
Bath Iron Works on Tuesday won a $70 million contract as the federal government separately set out a defense spending plan that includes billions for the ship programs currently under way at the Bath shipyard.
U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree announced late Tuesday that the $70 million contract will fund design planning and maintenance work on the DDG-51 Arleigh Burke-class of destroyers.
In a separate announcement, U.S. Sen. Susan Collins said in a press release Tuesday that the Senate approved the 2013 Defense Authorization bill that includes authority for the federal government to purchase up to 10 destroyers in that class, an authorization of around $3 billion.
In September 2011, the Bath shipyard received a $680 million contract for construction of an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer and in February of this year received another similar $663 million contract.
The new defense authorization bill also sets out $669 million for the new Zumwalt-class, or DDG-1000, destroyer. The Bath shipyard expects to complete the first ship in that class in 2015 and in September 2011 received a $2 billion contract to build the second and third ships in that new destroyer class.
The new federal authorization also includes $6.3 billion for ship repairs, a total that includes funding for overhaul, refueling and maintenance of nuclear-powered submarines at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, according to Collins.
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