DDG 51 Arleigh Burke Class Guided Missile Destroyer (DDG 51)

The Navy has instituted several initiatives to reduce cost associated with the current DDG 51 Class ships. These ships will maintain a stable configuration baseline without adverse impact to mission readiness, vulnerability, survivability, or safety. The Navy has significantly increased the use of competitive contracts in lieu of sole source contracts. Other cost initiatives include the use of refurbished assets from retiring Navy ships and leveraging Government Furnished Equipment GFE contracts across multiple ship classes to obtain better prices across the Navy. On June 3, 2013, the Navy awarded two contracts for the FY 2013 - FY 2017 Multi Year Procurement MYP, with four ships and an option for a fifth awarded to General Dynamics, Bath Iron Works and five ships awarded to Huntington Ingalls Industries. On December 27, 2013, the Navy awarded a MYP contract to Lockheed Martin for the procurement of AEGIS Weapon Systems AWS for Flight IIA ships from FY 2013 through the first ship of FY 2016. These MYPs enabled the program to procure up to ten ships at significant savings, while providing for a stable industrial base for shipbuilders in Maine and Mississippi, for the AWS procurement in New Jersey, and for GFE vendors across the rest of the country.