Mary-Louise Hoffman
General Dynamics has been awarded a $644.3 million contract modification to build an additional Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer for the U.S. Navy.
Fred Harris, president of General Dynamics unit Bath Iron Works, said Thursday the company will use the money for the planning and construction of DDG 124.
The modification comes under a potential five-ship, $3.4 billion contract that the company won in 2013.
Bath Iron Works is currently building USS Rafael Peralta, USS Thomas Hudner, USS Daniel Inouye and USS Carl M. Levin as part of the Navy’s DDG 51 shipbuilding program.
The DDG 124 destroyer will be named after retired U.S. Marine Corps Col. Harvey Barnum Jr., who earned a Medal of Honor for his valor during the Vietnam War.
