US military shipbuilder General Dynamics Corp has won a contract valued at $212 million to design and construct a new steel deckhouse for the third Zumwalt-class destroyer it is building in Bath, Maine, the Pentagon said on Friday. The fixed-price contract, which carries an incentive fee, also covers construction of a new aft peripheral launch system to launch missiles from the ship.
The contract runs through December 2016, the Pentagon said in its daily digest of major weapons deals. Chris Johnson, spokesman for Naval Sea Systems Command, said the Navy initially planned to buy a composite deckhouse and the missile launch system for the ship from Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc.
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