US Navy explains plan to scrap DDG-1000 destroyer

By Andrea Shalal-Esa WASHINGTON, July 23 (Reuters) - A U.S. Navy decision to scrap the DDG-1000 destroyer program after just two ships could have "potentially devastating consequences" said Sen. Susan Collins, a Maine Republican whose state includes General Dynamics Corp's (GD.N: ) Bath Iron Works shipyard. U.S. Navy Secretary Donald Winter and Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead spent hours with lawmakers on Wednesday explaining their decision. Collins said Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England had promised to work with her to "mitigate the impact on Bath Iron Works' workforce of the termination of the DDG-1000 program." Bath Iron Works is building one of the new destroyers, Northrop Grumman Corp... [read full story]