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BIW starts work on new destroyer as another ships out

Sen. Susan Collins kicks off construction of the future USS Patrick Gallagher on the same day the USS Michael Monsoor leaves the shipyard for the last time. BRUNSWICK — Bath Iron Works celebrated ... read more

Maine Shipyard Starts New Destroyer as Another Departs

The ceremony marked the start of construction of the future USS Patrick Gallagher, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer named for an Irish-born Marine who was awarded the Navy Cross. Later, another ... to ... read more

New Amphibious Ship Ordered for Navy, Destroyer To Come

WASHINGTON — Gulf shipbuilders gained a new amphibious ship late Friday ... by the Navy in 2009, when another swap agreement was signed between the Navy, BIW and Ingalls over work on DDG 1000 ... read more

The future is now: BIW shipyard looks to cut costs to win major Coast Guard contract

He's confident BIW's final proposal "will be a very well-designed and very well-thought-out ship." But those strengths won't be enough to win the work ... new hires must take a rigorous six-week ... read more

Bath Iron Works lands $3.9 billion deal to build 4 more destroyers

BATH, Maine — Bath Iron Works announced Thursday that the U.S. Navy has awarded it contracts to build four of the 10 Flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyers ... surprised if another ship wasn’t ... read more

Navy funding request is good news for BIW even as stealth destroyer costs grow

BIW, which employs 6,100 people, has seven Navy ships under construction and another four under contract. Three of the ships under construction are Zumwalt-class guided missile destroyers ... also ... read more

Is this Maine-built destroyer a marvel, or a floating boondoggle?

And it has publicly questioned the destroyer ... for a ship of such size and complexity. But first Bath Iron Works and Raytheon must work out the bugs. The delays announced this year are in large part ... read more

The Navy May Use One Hull Design To Replace Its Cruisers And Some Destroyers

“At that point you are a light switch flipping on away from winking out the whole ship,” an unnamed Navy official told Defense News' David Larter in March 2018. If the Navy can’t use the Flight III ... read more

Inside America’s Lethal New Stealth Destroyer

On Friday May 20, the new ship was formally delivered to the Navy at Bath Iron Works in Portland ... The Navy will test out the basics make sure the ship can work then by testing those components of ... read more

Being a cut above might not help Bath Iron Works avoid future job cuts

“But the Coast Guard is even more cost-conscious than the Navy is, and the ship is not as complex or as demanding as a Navy destroyer would be.” BIW ... start spending heavily on a new batch of ... read more

Hundreds of Bath Iron Works employees gear up for strike next week

We have also continued to prepare for the possibility of a strike starting ... destroyers and four Arleigh-Burke warships. BIW spokesman David Hench said the company would not elaborate beyond saying ... read more

Decades of tide changes: Investments help Bath Iron Works maintain its shipbuilding prowess

BIW would build the entire third ship — including the deckhouse and hangar — out ... destroyers in various stages of construction and another lined up to begin at year's end, BIW began a major hiring ... read more