Thursday, March 19, 2009

Pentagon may sink plans for destroyer scheduled for BIW

http://kennebecjournal.mainetoday.com/news/local/6086722.html

A new generation of Navy destroyers that Bath Iron Works hoped would support thousands of jobs may be abandoned under the budget Defense Secretary Robert Gates will submit in April.

That's the opinion of defense industry analysts who are familiar with the DDG-1000, a Cold War-era design with a price tag estimated at more than $3 billion each.