BATH — Bath Iron Works has received an $18 million modification to the contract for the first DDG-1000 Zumwalt-class guided missile destroyer.
The modification — part of the original $3.1 billion contract, according to Chris Johnson, a public affairs officer at Naval Sea Systems Command in Washington, D.C. — will allow work to continue on the three DDG-1000 ships, BIW spokesman Jim DeMartini said.
The funds will allow BIW to support construction and maintenance of the ship design even as that design changes.
The first destroyer in the DDG-1000 class, the future USS Zumwalt, is to be completed in 2015.
Johnson said sequestration will not affect the contract modification: “The Navy and the government still have to spend money, still have contract obligations and still have to pay for systems. [Sequestration] doesn’t mean all money stops flowing to contractors.”
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