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Bath Iron Works has won a $70 million contract to perform design and planning services for maintenance and upgrade to the Arleigh Burke line of destroyers and Perry class of guided missile frigates, U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree, said in a news release Tuesday.
“BIW has built dozens of these ships and I can’t think of a better place for the Navy to go to plan for the maintenance and modernization of these vessels,” said Pingree, a Democratic member of the House Armed Services Committee. “This contract represents $70 million of work at the yard next year, which is important to help keep some of the best shipbuilders in the world on the job.”
Bath Iron Works launched the Oliver Hazard Perry, the first ship in the Perry line of guided missile frigates, in 1975. BIW launched the Arleigh Burke, the lead ship in that class of guided missile destroyers, in 1989.
Pingree said she has continued to fight for funding to keep BIW building enough new Arleigh
Burke class destroyers to maintain employment levels at the yard.
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