SecNav Confirms DDG Multi-Year Procurement Planned, Agrees With Ending F/A-18E/F Purchases

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The Secretary of the Navy confirmed the department will seek another multi-year procurementcontract for Arleigh Burke-class (DDG-51) destroyers and backs previous service plans to endnew purchases of the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet aircraft.When speaking at the Aspen Security Forum on Thursday, Carlos Del Toro was asked how heresponds to and if he accepts as fact General Dynamics Bath Iron Works [GD] warning itwould have to cut 2,400 shipbuilding jobs by 2024 if the Navy does not place another long-termorder for destroyers. GD and Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII] both build the destroyersfor the Navy, with the latter at its shipyard in Pascagoula, Miss.