Pentagon Approves Key Milestone For Multibillion-Dollar Destroyer

摘要

The Pentagon has approved a new milestone for the Navy's Zumwalt-class DDG-1000 destroyer program, confirming construction plans and setting short-term spending limits for the multibillion-dollar shipbuilding endeavor now in the midst of contract negotiations.rnFrank Kendall, the department's No. 2 procurement official, issued the approval in an Oct. 8 "for official use only" acquisition decision memorandum to Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, which the Defense Department acknowledged was in the works earlier this fall (lnside the Pentagon, Sept. 23, p1).