HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division started fabrication of the U.S. Navy’s newest Arleigh Burke-class (DDG 51) destroyer Thad Cochran (DDG 135) on Monday.

The U.S. Navy commissioned its newest Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Carl M. Levin (DDG 120), June 24 in Baltimore.

The U.S. Navy commissioned its newest Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee (DDG 123), May 13 in Key West, Florida.

The U.S. Navy marked a major milestone with the new DDG(X) Land Based Test Site (LBTS) during a ribbon cutting ceremony on March 21, 2023.

Gibbs & Cox, awarded contract by U.S. Navy for DDG(X) and Surface Combatant Ship Design Engineering

The U.S. Navy accepted delivery of the Arleigh Burke-class Flight IIA destroyer, the future USS Carl M. Levin (DDG 120), from General Dynamics Bath Iron Works, Jan. 26.

Naval News reached out to the RAND Corporation for comments, and opinions on the US Navy’s next-generation destroyer program, DDG(X).

The future USS Carl M. Levin (DDG 120) successfully completed acceptance trials on December 9th, returning to General Dynamics Corp’s Bath Iron Works (BIW) Bath shipyard after spending two days at sea.

Ingalls Shipbuilding has been awarded a cost-plus-incentive-fee contract for engineering and design from the U.S. Navy for the next-generation guided-missile destroyer (DDG(X)) program.

Huntington Ingalls Industries christened the first Arleigh Burke Flight-III destroyer Jack H. Lucas (DDG 125) at the company’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division.