Bath Iron Works Gets Long Lead Material and Design Planning Contract for DDG 1000

Released on Monday, June 11, 2007

Bath Iron Works Inc., Bath, Maine, is being awarded a $197,071,953 cost-reimbursement type modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-06-C-2303) for DDG 1000 Zumwalt Class Destroyer long lead material, and pre-production planning to support detail design and construction. The mission of the DDG 1000 Zumwalt Class of Destroyers is to provide affordable and credible independent forward presence/deterrence and to operate as an integral part of the Naval, Joint, or Combined Maritime Forces. DDG 1000 will provide advanced land attack capability in support of the ground campaign and contribute Naval, Joint, or Combined battle-space dominance in littoral operations. Work will be performed in Bath, Maine (44 percent), Parsippany, N.J. (16 percent), Pittsburgh, Pa. (10 percent), Iron Mountain, Mich. (5 percent), Erie, Pa. (4 percent), Kingsford, Mich. (4 percent), Mississauga, Ontario, Canada (4 percent), York, Pa. (3 percent), Kent, Wash. (3 percent), Indianapolis, Ind. (3 percent), Hudson, Maine (2 percent), and Newton Square, Pa. (2 percent), and is expected to be completed by December 2007. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity.