Zumwalt contract change awarded

Bath Iron Works of Bath, Maine, is being awarded a $45.8 million modification to a previously awarded contract to exercise an option for services associated with the detail design and construction of the DDG 1000 Zumwalt class destroyer. Work is expected to be completed by November 2010. (Source: DoD, 12/01/08) Northrop Grumman, Pascagoula, Miss., is also involved in the DDG 1000 program.