Ingalls, Bath working through detail design of upgraded destroyers

By Justin Doubleday / January 20, 2016 at 9:15 AM
The two shipbuilding companies manufacturing the Navy's Arleigh Burke-class destroyers are expected to finalize detail design drawings for the Flight III upgrade in the second half of 2017, according to the program manager. General Dynamics Bath Iron Works and Huntington Ingalls, the two manufacturers of the Arleigh Burke-class, are waiting for the Navy to finish compiling the government-furnished information needed to design the Flight III upgrade, according to Capt. Mark Vandroff, the DDG-51 program manager. Once the Navy provides the...

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