The Navy today awarded two separate contract modifications to Huntington Ingalls Industries and General Dynamics Bath Iron Works to fund an additional fiscal year 2014 DDG-51 Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, exercising the option to fund this 10th ship in the program's previously awarded multiyear procurement contract. "The Navy successfully worked with Congress to resolve funding shortfalls resulting from sequestration reductions before contracting for the option ship," a service announcement reads. In the announcement, service acquisition chief Sean Stackley credits the Navy's...
