The following is the May 2, 2022 Congressional Research Service report, Navy DDG-51 and DDG-1000 Destroyer Programs: Background and Issues for Congress. Read More
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Report to Congress on U.S. Navy Destroyer Programs
The following is the March 2, 2022, Congressional Research Service report, Navy DDG-51 and DDG-1000 Destroyer Programs: Background and Issues for Congress. Read More
Report to Congress on U.S. Navy Destroyer Programs
The following is the Feb. 3, 2022 Congressional Research Service report, Navy DDG-51 and DDG-1000 Destroyer Programs: Background and Issues for Congress. Read More
Report to Congress on U.S. Navy Destroyer Programs
The following is the Nov. 17, 2021 Congressional Research Service report, Navy DDG-51 and DDG-1000 Destroyer Programs: Background and Issues for Congress. Read More
William Roper: Pentagon Needs to Look Toward Repurposing Technology
USS John Paul Jones (DDG-53) launches a Standard Missile 6 (SM-6) during a live-fire test of the ship’s aegis weapons system. OSD and the Navy are modifying the SM-6 to strike surface targets. US Navy Photo
How the Navy repurposed its Standard Missile 6 into an anti-surface weapon should be a model each service and the Pentagon follow to inject new thinking into the way they fight and bring new life into the industrial bases, the former chief of Air Force acquisition said Thursday. Read More
Destroyer USS Curtis Wilbur Transits Taiwan Strait
Boatswain’s Mate Seaman Apprentice Yazzmine Dixon, from Chicago, steers the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Curtis Wilbur (DDG 54). Curtis Wilbur is assigned to Destroyer Squadron (DESRON) 15, the Navy’s largest forward-deployed DESRON and the U.S. 7th Fleet’s principal surface force. US Navy photo.
A U.S. destroyer moved through the Taiwan Strait on Wednesday, the Navy announced. Read More
BIW Workers Sign off on New Labor Deal, Head Back To Work
Undated Photo of worker at General Dynamic-Bath Iron Works shipyard. BIW Photo
The striking employees at General Dynamics Bath Iron Works voted to support a deal with the shipbuilder and have gone back to work, according to the yard and the union. Read More
Report to Congress on U.S. Navy Destroyer Programs
The following is the July 21, 2020 Congressional Research Service report, Navy DDG-51 and DDG-1000 Destroyer Programs: Background and Issues for Congress. Read More
Ingalls Shipbuilding Wins Contract for 3rd DDG in FY 2020
Ingalls Shipbuilding in May 2019. HII Photo
This post has been updated to correct that Ingalls won the option for a third DDG not because it offered the lower cost but because of industrial base considerations.
Ingalls Shipbuilding in Mississippi won a second Arleigh Burke-class destroyer for the current fiscal year, after competing with General Dynamics Bath Iron Works for the additional hull Congress funded. Read More
Report to Congress on U.S. Navy Destroyer Programs
The following is the June 8, 2020 Congressional Research Service report, Navy DDG-51 and DDG-1000 Destroyer Programs: Background and Issues for Congress. Read More
