Navy Secretary Says DOD Plans New Multi-Year Contract For Arleigh Burke Destroyers (From News Center Maine)

A July 1 Forbes article (“Naval Shipbuilder Bath Iron Works Has Survived Many Setbacks. The Next Time Could Be Different.”) by Lexington COO Loren Thompson was cited by News Center Maine in a piece discussing the new multi-year contract to build Arleigh Burke-class destroyers at Maine’s Bath Iron Works.

Thompson’s piece suggested “that such cuts to the only class of ship BIW continues to build could mean the end of the shipyard.”

Read the full article here.