Category: 2014

BATH, Maine – This week, General Dynamics Bath Iron Works celebrated two milestone events for the Arleigh Burke-class program. On October 30, Bath Iron Works held a keel laying ceremony for the Rafael Peralta (DDG 115), the company’s 35th Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer. The ship is named for Sgt. Rafael Peralta, U.S. Marine Corps, who Read More >

BATH, Maine – The U.S. Navy awarded General Dynamics Bath Iron Works a $100 million contract to provide planning yard services for the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program. General Dynamics Bath Iron Works is a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD). Bath Iron Works, as the LCS Planning Yard, will provide maintenance and modernization Read More >

BATH, Maine – General Dynamics Bath Iron Works officially opened its new Trades Learning Center today during a visit by Maine Governor Paul R. LePage. The Center will provide training space and equipment for newly hired pipefitters, welders, tinsmiths, electricians and other tradesmen and women as they undergo multi-week curricula to ground them in shipyard Read More >

BATH, Maine – The U.S. Navy has awarded General Dynamics Bath Iron Works a contract valued at $642.5 million to construct an additional Arleigh Burke-class destroyer. The award brings the total number of ships to be constructed by Bath Iron Works under a multi-year procurement to five, and the total value of the contract to Read More >

BATH, Maine – The U.S. Coast Guard has awarded General Dynamics Bath Iron Works a $21.4 million contract for the Offshore Patrol Cutter (OPC) program. Bath Iron Works is one of three shipyards chosen from a field of eight competitors to proceed to Phase I design work on this next-generation cutter program. The Bath Iron Read More >