The design for the Flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyer is 91 percent complete as the Navy is wrapped up in continued contract negotiations with General Dynamics Bath Iron Works for DDG-126 and DDG-127. The service is confident in the design's maturity which is on track to be 100 percent complete by the start of fabrication, Naval Sea Systems Command spokeswoman Colleen O'Rourke wrote in an Aug. 16 statement to Inside the Navy . Two companies submitted engineering change proposals --...
