Congressman Bruce Poliquin (ME-02) and Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (ME-01) have successfully secured an amendment to the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to ensure that Bath Iron Works (BIW) can remain in contract negotiations and on track to construct a second Fiscal Year 2016 DDG-51 destroyer and a Fiscal Year 2017 DDG-51 destroyer, after a provision had been added in committee t... Read more »
Today, Congresswoman Chellie Pingree joined her House colleagues in voting for a $1.17 trillion bipartisan spending bill which will fund the government through September 2017. In House negotiations, Pingree strongly advocated for several key programs to be funded in the final bill. Some of the programs that are of particular importance to Maine include: $3 billion for Community Development Block G... Read more »
Congresswoman Chellie Pingree lauded the announcement of a $59.4 million contract modification to BIW. "I am excited to see the Navy award this funding to Bath Iron Works as part of this contract modification. This is money well spent. It is further proof of the great work done by the men and women at BIW and the Navy's recognition of that." Read more »
Congresswoman Chellie Pingree voted this morning for a spending bill that will keep the government operating for the remainder of the fiscal year (through September 30, 2016). The bill includes provisions Pingree inserted to improve health care for veterans and restore funding to an important pre-K program. The bill also contains important provisions affecting agriculture, taxes, clean energy, hea... Read more »
Congresswoman Chellie Pingree said today that Bath Iron Works is in line to get an agreement to build another DDG 51 destroyer, in addition to the five that the yard already has contracted with the Navy for. The contract for the extra ship is triggered by a 2002 agreement with the Navy that gives BIW another DDG 51 if the Huntington Ingalls Shipyard in Mississippi is awarded a contract to build an... Read more »
The U.S.S. Michael Murphy, an Arleigh Burke destroyer built at Bath Iron Works. Representatives Chellie Pingree and Bruce Poliquin say a major defense bill contains funding the two pushed for that could result in the construction of a new destroyer at Bath Iron Works. The version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) agreed to by House and Senate negotiators this week includes a provis... Read more »
Congresswoman Chellie Pingree said tonight that Bath Iron Works has won a $21 million deal to extend its work on construction of DDG 51 destroyers. Bath Iron Works is the lead designer of the current run of DDG 51s and the contract will allow them to provide engineering and support work for the "follow" shipyard—the Ingalls Shipyard in Pascogoula, Mississippi. "This is a great example of the phra... Read more »
Contracts will provide maintenance support for fleet, design work on new class of ship Congresswoman Chellie Pingree said that Bath Iron Works was awarded two Navy contracts today for work totaling just over $57 million. One contract, for $28.7 million, is for fleet maintenance work on Navy ships. The other, also for $28.7 million, is for design and engineering work on the Littoral Combat Ship (L... Read more »
Bill provides funding for BIW, fisheries disaster relief, Head Start and child nutrition Congresswoman Chellie Pingree, a member of the House Appropriations Committee, voted today for a bipartisan bill that will keep the government operating through the rest of the current fiscal year. "This wasn't a perfect bill by any stretch of the imagination, but it did replace some of the sequester and allo... Read more »
Bill will avoid another shutdown and support important programs in Maine, like fisheries disaster funding and continued work at Bath Iron Works Congresswoman Chellie Pingree said today she will vote for a bipartisan bill to fund the federal government through the end of September. The compromise bill, the product of bipartisan House and Senate negotiations over the last few weeks, was released la... Read more »
