The Yard: Building a Destroyer at the Bath Iron Works
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780060192464 (0060192461)
ASIN: 60192461
Publish date: November 1st 1999
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
There are few shipbuilding firms left in the United States, and Navy contracts are sometimes the only way they can stay in business. Even so, the Navy has refined its procurement procedures to transfer most of the risk to the shipbuilder. The Navy will supply the basic specifications, but the “yard”...