In July 2008, Navy announced its decision to truncate the DDG 1000 program at three ships and restart the construction of BMD capable DDG 51s. The Department’s decision to truncate the DDG 1000 ...

There's a "USS" in the name of every commissioned ship in the United States Navy. But other designations are more obscure.

The US Navy needs a large surface warship to maintain any edge that it might still have over China in the Western Pacific.

The US Navy's newest frigate program is sailing straight into the same storm that sank its last two major shipbuilding efforts: rising costs, design ...

If a kinetic war were to occur, the U.S. Navy’s fleet of ... of the Ticonderoga ships. In order to satisfy its designation as “next-generation,” the DDG(X) class will incorporate cutting ...

The ship class eventually became known as DDG 1000 and through the early part of the 2000s the construction plans shifted multiple times as Navy shipbuilding plans evolved. The eventual result is ...

25. This now-five-year-old ONR report was prescient in recognizing the potential of the DDG 1000 Zumwalt-class destroyer as the lead ship for the Navy after Next, noting, “IPS and electric drive will ...

The expanded U.S. presence will include the Navy’s next-generation warship, the DDG-1000 Zumwalt class destroyer ... scale back its initial plan for 32 ships to 3 (each of which now costs ...

The goal of the DDG modernization effort is to reduce workload requirements and increase war fighting capabilities while reducing total ownership cost to the Navy. In-service ships can be ...

Acting Secretary of the Navy, Terence Emmert visited the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Ross (DDG 71) and the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD 1) during ...