Collins asks Mullen to abandon winner-take-all for DD(X)

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Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine) has asked Adm. Michael Mullen, to be the next chief of naval operations and to abandon plans to give only one company the responsibility of building the next generation of DD (X) destroyers. Susan Collins and other senators from shipbuilding states are worried about the situation wherein due to lack of funds only one company will monopolize in building surface ships.

Product development, Strategy & planning, Executive changes & profiles, Destroyers, Planning, Officials and employees, Appointments, resignations and dismissals, Destroyers (Warships), Company business planning, DD(X) guided missile destroyer (Ship), Mullen, Michael

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Senators concerned Navy may not compete LCS work

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The United States Senators are worried that the Navy may order the Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) from Lockheed Martin Corp. or General Dynamics Corp. without holding an open competition. The Navy is expected to give a detailed procurement contract plan for purchasing more LCS to the lawmakers.

Shipbuilding & Repair, Lockheed Martin Corp., Shipbuilding industry, General Dynamics Corp., GD, Defense contracts, Government contract, Defence contracts, Littoral Combat Ship (Ship)

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