Bath Iron Works Awarded Second Flight III Destroyer In Two Ship Contract Modification
General Dynamics Bath Iron Works was awarded a two destroyer deal that would include the construction of the second planned…
Report to Congress on U.S. Navy Destroyer Programs
The following is the Aug. 11, 2017 Congressional Research Service report, Navy DDG-51 and DDG-1000 Destroyer Programs: Background and Issues…
NAVSEA: New SPY-6 Radar Scores in Ballistic Missile Defense Test
The radar bound for the Navy’s new Flight III Arleigh Burke guided-missile destroyers successfully tracked a complex ballistic missile target…
VIDEO: USS Rafael Peralta Commissioning Ceremony
The following is the July 29, 2017 commissioning ceremony of the guided-missile destroyer USS Rafael Peralta (DDG-115) at Naval Air…
Second Arleigh Burke Restart Destroyer Rafael Peralta to Commission on Saturday
A previous version of this post mislabeled the iteration of the Aegis combat system on Peralta. It will field Baseline 9D,…
Navy Commissions First Arleigh Burke Restart Destroyer USS John Finn
The first of a new line of Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers (DDG-51) commissioned in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in a ceremony…
Huntington Ingalls Industries Awarded First Flight III Arleigh Burke Destroyer
Huntington Ingalls Industries won an award to build the first of a new configuration of Arleigh Burke guided missile destroyers,…
Navy Pushes Back Schedule for Upgraded Destroyer Program; HII Set to Build First Flight III
The Navy has reached a tentative agreement with Huntington Ingalls Industries for the shipbuilder to build the first Flight III…
Document: CBO Analysis of the Navy’s Fiscal Year 2017 Shipbuilding Plan
The following is the Congressional Budget Office report, An Analysis of the Navy’s Fiscal Year 2017 Shipbuilding Plan.…
Wargames This Year To Inform Future Surface Combatant Requirements
The Navy is already conducting wargames in preparation for the Future Surface Combatant family of systems acquisition process to begin…