WASHINGTON, D.C.—Senator Susan Collins, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, announced today that the Naval Sea Systems Command has awarded Bath Iron Works a $42,759,000 cost-plus-award-fee modification to a previously awarded contract for the continuation of DD(X)/DDG-1000 transition design efforts and initial detail design, as well as long lead material procurement for ship construction. On November 23, 2005, the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics granted Milestone B approval for the DD(X)/DDG-1000, permitting the program to enter the System Development and Demonstration phase and begin detail design and construction.
“I am pleased to see continued funding for a project as vital to our national security as the DD(X)/DDG-1000, and I have no doubt that the men and women of Bath Iron Works will continue their longstanding tradition of delivering the very best major surface combatants in the world,” Senator Collins said.
Last Friday, Secretary of the Navy Donald Winter signed out a letter approving the name change of the DD(X) to DDG-1000. The lead ship will be called the USS Zumwalt, in honor of Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, who served as Chief of Naval Operations from July 1970 to July 1974.