BATH
The U.S. Navy awarded Bath Iron Works a contract modification worth $73.9 million on Thursday.
The modification is of long-standing contracts to support the DDG-51 class destroyers and FFG-7 class frigates, according to a news release issued Thursday by U.S. Sens Susan Collins, a member of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, and Angus King, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
The modified contract calls for BIW to provide “expert design, planning and material support services for planned and emergent availabilities for both ship classes.”
“We are pleased that the Navy chose to modify BIW’s contract, which will allow the highly-skilled work force at the Bath shipyard to continue to make important improvements to the ships responsible for the future of our national security,” Collins and King said.
The work will be performed in Bath and is expected to be completed by December 2016.
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