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PublishedMarch 8, 2020
New destroyers will boost Navy’s ballistic missile defense
The latest version of the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer features tech upgrades that enable the ships to simultaneously defend against ballistic missiles as well as conventional threats from the air.
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PublishedMarch 5, 2020
BIW begins work on latest destroyer
The ship is named for Louis H. Wilson Jr., a US Marine Corps captain who earned the Medal of Honor for his heroics at the Battle of Guam in 1944.
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PublishedFebruary 9, 2020
Navy requests Bath-built destroyer replace submarine in 2021 budget
The destroyer, which Bath Iron Works can compete to build, would inch the Navy closer to the Trump Administration’s 355-ship naval fleet goal, which Congress made law in the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act.
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PublishedJanuary 26, 2020
BIW battling bed bugs
A union representative said the shipyard has taken steps to isolate and control the pest problem.
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PublishedJanuary 26, 2020
Bath Iron Works battling bedbugs
A union representative says the shipyard has taken steps to isolate and control the pest problem.
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PublishedJanuary 19, 2020
Despite proposed cuts, Pingree ‘confident’ Bath shipyard will fulfill contracts
Department of Defense recommended slashing the number of Arleigh Burke-class destroyers built for the Navy between 2021 and 2025 from 12 ships to seven.
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PublishedJanuary 13, 2020
Bath Iron Works begins construction on ship named for war hero
The future USS John Basilone is one of five vessels under construction at the Bath shipyard.
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PublishedJanuary 8, 2020
Top Democratic lawmakers threaten to roll back BIW’s $45 million tax break
House Speaker Sara Gideon and Senate President Troy Jackson suggest BIW it is not meeting job creation and wage requirements in a 2018 law, allegations that the shipyard disputes.
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PublishedJanuary 7, 2020
Sens. Collins, King object to proposed Navy shipbuilding reductions
The U.S. senators from Maine make their concerns known Tuesday in a letter to Secretary of Defense Mark Esper.
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PublishedJanuary 3, 2020
Political experts: Pentagon’s proposed cuts to Bath-built destroyers won’t pass Congress
If approved, the Pentagon's proposed 40 percent reduction in destroyers built between 2021 and 2025 would shrink the Naval fleet to 287 from its current 293 ships.
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