May 21, 2009
Secretary Gates plans Bath visit
By Mainebiz News Staff
Defense Secretary Robert Gates is scheduled to tour Bath Iron Works Friday, to assess its capabilities and meet workers.
As secretary, Gates has the power to influence where and how many Navy destroyers will be built in the coming years. His current budget recommendations call for BIW to build three DDG-1000 destroyers -- the only ships to be built in a new line of surface combatants known as the Zumwalt line -- before embarking on construction of more Arleigh Burke destroyers, according to the Portland Press Herald. He is the first member of a presidential Cabinet to tour the yard in a decade.
The yard has three Arleigh Burke destroyers under construction now.
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