The Navy hopes to boost funding for the next-generation destroyer that Maine’s Bath Iron Works hopes to build, according to an industry newsletter.

Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz has approved Navy Secretary Gordon England’s proposal to increase funding for the so-called DD-X destroyer program by $2.5 billion over three years, according to Inside the Navy.

The Bath shipyard’s parent company said the news showed support from the administration, but a spokeswoman for Republican Sen. Susan Collins, a member of the Armed Services Committee, cautioned that it’s not a done deal.