The Pentagon's acquisition executive has agreed to extend interim contracts to the shipyards developing the Navy's next-generation DD(X) destroyer, allowing the companies to keep engineering and design teams in place while the Defense Department considers a new acquisition strategy for the program. Kenneth Krieg, under secretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics, on Aug. 5 approved a Navy request to award additional contracts to General Dynamics Bath Iron Works and Northrop Grumman Ship Systems in advance of a formal...
