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Bath Iron Works provides lead yard services for the DDG 51-class guided missile destroyers Author: Beth Brogan (NEWS CENTER Maine) Published: 10:44 AM EDT June 9, 2021 Updated: 10:44 AM EDT June 9, 2021 BATH, Maine — The U.S. Navy has awarded Bath Iron Works a $55.1 million contract modification to a previously awarded contract to provide lead yard services for the DDG 51 (Arleigh Burke) class destroyer program. The work will be completed by June 2022, according to the award issued by the Naval Sea Systems Command. The award comes amid concern...

Boeing Co. is behind schedule on two new Air Force One aircraft.

‘RALLY THE WORLD'S DEMOCRACIES’: President Joe Biden departs this morning on the first overseas trip of his term, which begins with a meeting of G-7 ministers in Cornwall, includes a NATO summit in Brussels, and ends with a face-to-face meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Geneva.

“I wouldn’t expect [the delay] to be more than what Boeing is saying,” Ms. Costello said. She testified this week before the House Armed Services’ Seapower and Projection Forces subcommittee on the controversial plan to replace the aging Air Force One planes with upgraded versions that will be formally identified as VC-25B.  The Air Force One replacement program has been plagued with a number of headaches.  President Trump in 2018 reached an informal deal with Boeing to go forward with a $3.9 billion contract and boasted of having convinced the company to lower their price by more t...

And it has a little something to do with missiles.