Future Destroyer Daniel Inouye Begins Builder’s Trials, After Nearly Two-Year Gap In Trials For BIW Ships
Bath Iron Works sent its first ship in two years down the Kennebec River for sea trials, with builder’s trials…
Memos to Shipyards from Navy Leadership
The following are a pair of November memos from Navy acquisition chief James Geurts and Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike…
Lack of U.S. Warship Repair Capacity Worrying Navy
A deficit of ship repair capacity and an expected change in the Navy’s needs for large combatants versus smaller ones…
BIW Workers Sign off on New Labor Deal, Head Back To Work
The striking employees at General Dynamics Bath Iron Works voted to support a deal with the shipbuilder and have gone…
Bath Iron Works Strikers, Shipyard Reach Tentative Deal
After partaking in mediation proceedings the last few weeks, striking shipbuilders at General Dynamics Bath Iron Works and the shipyard…
Bath Iron Works Strikers Ready to Negotiate After Appeals to Congress, Navy
After waging a campaign to lobby Congress and the Navy, the workers at General Dynamics Bath Iron Works want to…
Report to Congress on U.S. Navy Frigate FFG(X) Program
The following is the June 26, 2020 Congressional Research Service report, Navy Frigate (FFG[X]) Program: Background and Issues for Congress.…
Ingalls Shipbuilding Wins Contract for 3rd DDG in FY 2020
This post has been updated to correct that Ingalls won the option for a third DDG not because it offered…
Bath Iron Works on Striking Union: ‘Ball is in Their Court’
Management of General Dynamics Bath Iron Works told a local on-strike machinists union they are unwilling to budge on the…
Bath Iron Works Employees On Strike After Yard, Union Unable to Agree on Measures Taken to Reduce Backlog
The unionized workforce at General Dynamics Bath Iron Works began its strike today, further delaying work on two destroyer programs…