The U.S. Navy has awarded General
Dynamics Bath Iron Works $212 million for the design and construction of a
steel deckhouse and hangar and construction of aft Peripheral Vertical
Launching System (PVLS) modules for integration into Lyndon B Johnson (DDG
1002), the third ship of the U.S. Navy's Zumwalt-class of guided missile
destroyers. General Dynamics Bath Iron Works is a business unit of General
Dynamics GD.
"The design and production of these critical components of DDG 1002 will help
maintain our specialized engineering and design skills and provides additional
stability to our manufacturing workload," said Jeff Geiger, president of Bath
Iron Works. "We are pleased to have been selected for this important work."
The Zumwalt-class deckhouse includes the ship's bridge, radars, antennas and
intake/exhaust systems in a structure with a significantly smaller radar
cross-section than other ships in the modern Navy fleet. The enclosed hangar
is designed to accommodate two medium-lift helicopters or other
mission-related equipment. The PVLS modules distribute the ship's missile
launchers in separate four-cell launcher compartments along the ship's hull.
There are currently three DDG 1000 class destroyers in production at Bath Iron
Works, Zumwalt (DDG 1000), Michael Monsoor (DDG 1001) and Lyndon B. Johnson
(DDG 1002). Zumwalt is scheduled to be delivered to the Navy in 2015. The
keel laying ceremony for DDG 1001 took place in May 2013 and Start of
Fabrication for DDG 1002 was in April 2012.
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