Taylor: Northrop hasn't lost destroyer pacts

PASCAGOULA, Miss. - Northrop Grumman has not lost contracts for a half dozen new Navy destroyers, despite a document quoted by a trade publication, U.S. Rep. Gene Taylor said Friday. Inside the Navy said the service plans to award contracts for six of the proposed eight DDG-51 destroyers to Bath Iron Works in Maine and two to Northrop Grumman in Pascagoula. Taylor said it was a memo stating someone's thoughts and should not have been released. He said the Navy assured him it's not a done deal. (Source: Mississippi Press, 10/25/08)