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 ...

Yet, the Navy chased niche projects such as the Littoral Combat Ship and the DDG-1000 out of a perceived need to contribute to a new security environment. The future of war was in the littorals ...

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

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 ...

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 ...