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PublishedMay 22, 2024
BIW recruiters visits Oxford Hills schools; offer welding student a job
About 400 Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School students filed through Bath Iron Works' mobile learning lab to learn about careers in shipbuilding.
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PublishedApril 3, 2023
Bath Iron Works, Mississippi shipyard can’t produce destroyers fast enough, Navy says
Congress approved 3 destroyers for the current fiscal year, but Pentagon officials say the shipyards can't build that many and wants to buy only 2 next year.
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PublishedFebruary 24, 2023
U.S. Navy applies lessons from costly shipbuilding mistakes
At Bath Iron Works, where the first Arleigh Burke was built, shipbuilders are happy to continue working on existing vessels while new designs are tested out.
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PublishedMarch 30, 2022
Four Irish siblings honor brother’s legacy at BIW warship ceremony
A Navy destroyer will bear the name of Lance Cpl. Patrick Gallagher, an Irish-born Marine who was killed in Vietnam.
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PublishedMarch 20, 2022
Bath Iron Works moving to install hypersonic weapons on warships
The retrofit of three Zumwalt-class destroyers will likely cost over $1 billion.
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PublishedFebruary 22, 2022
Maine congressional delegates ask for more Bath-built ships
Maine and Mississippi lawmakers asked for funding for three Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, the type of ship BIW builds, in the president's budget for next year.
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PublishedFebruary 20, 2022
What roles might Bath-built ships play in Russia-Ukraine crisis?
BIW-built Arleigh Burkes are included in some fleets deployed to Europe.
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PublishedFebruary 16, 2022
Maine lawmakers urge Navy to name Bath-built ship after fallen Mainer
Maine lawmakers and Gov. Janet Mills have asked the Navy to name a destroyer after Master Sgt. Gary Gordon of Lincoln.
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PublishedJanuary 26, 2022
BIW union asks for smoking areas in shipyard after ‘increased fires’
Bath Iron Works' current zero-tobacco policy forces employees to leave company property to smoke.
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PublishedJanuary 12, 2022
Last high-tech Zumwalt-class destroyer leaves Bath Iron Works
The departure of the future USS Lyndon B. Johnson on Wednesday marks the end of a tumultuous period that saw just three out of a planned 32 vessels of this class built.
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