RAND: What Does the U.S. Navy Need in its Future Combatants?
Naval News asked the RAND Corporation for their opinions on what the U.S. Navy’s next-generation destroyer, the DDG(X), should have in terms of designing the plug-in Payload Module.
25 Apr 2024
Naval News asked the RAND Corporation for their opinions on what the U.S. Navy’s next-generation destroyer, the DDG(X), should have in terms of designing the plug-in Payload Module.
14 Apr 2023
Lockheed Martin revealed their new VLS development to Naval News at SAS 2023
24 Mar 2023
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.
18 Feb 2023
Gibbs & Cox, awarded contract by U.S. Navy for DDG(X) and Surface Combatant Ship Design Engineering
07 Feb 2023
Interview with Rear Admiral Fred Pyle, the U.S. Navy’s Director of Surface Warfare (OPNAV N96) during the Surface Navy Association (SNA) 2023 national symposium.
19 Jan 2023
The US Navy (USN) has defined core capability imperatives that are driving development of its next-generation guided-missile destroyer (DDG), to be delivered under the DDG(X) programme.
10 Jan 2023
Naval News reached out to the RAND Corporation for comments, and opinions on the US Navy’s next-generation destroyer program, DDG(X).
23 Jul 2022
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.
30 Mar 2022
The U.S. Navy’s Large Surface Combatant (LSC) force consists of three destroyers: DDG 51 Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, DDG 1000 Zumwalt destroyers and the upcoming next-generation destroyer program called DDG(X)...
10 Mar 2022
At the WEST 2022 Conference in San Diego, held mid-February, the U.S. Navy Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Michael Gilday said that he would like a future naval force of over 500 manned and unmanned ships.