The bill for repairing the Aegis destroyer Cole (DDG 67), severely damaged in a terrorist attack last October, has reached $243 million, $93 million above what Congress appropriated for the job last November, a Navy spokesman told InsideDefense.com today. The Cole's portside hull was ripped open by a terrorist bomb while it was refueling in the port of Aden, Yemen. The job of repairing the ship was given to Ingalls Shipbuilding of Pascagoula, MS. The Navy expects Ingalls to complete...
