BIW's potential $100M contract 'an important win'
Bath Iron Works has landed a contract potentially worth more than $100 million if the U.S. Navy exercises all options for planning yard services in BIW’s littoral combat ship program.
Matt Wickenheiser, a BIW spokesman, told the Bangor Daily News that the contract is “an important win” because it allows the company “to leverage [its] existing experience and infrastructure to support the Navy,” adding that “a couple of hundred of people” may end up supporting the program as work on littoral combat ships increases.
The U.S. Department of Defense said in an announcement that “[BIW] will be the single planning yard, providing engineering, planning, ship configuration, material and logistics support to maintain and modernize both variants of the [littoral combat ship] class," according to the BDN.
BIW is doing the contract work as part of a partnership with General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, Austal USA, CDI Corp. and Marinette Marine Corp.
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