PHOTO RELEASE--Ingalls Shipbuilding Awarded $604.3 Million Contract to Build DDG 121
31 March 2015 - 3:00AM
Huntington Ingalls Industries' (NYSE:HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding
division has received a $604.3 million contract modification to
fund construction of the Arleigh Burke-class (DDG 51) Aegis guided
missile destroyer DDG 121 for the U.S. Navy. The ship is the third
of five DDG 51 destroyers the company was awarded in June 2013.
"The DDG 51 program has been the backbone of Ingalls
Shipbuilding for the past three decades," said DDG 51 Program
Manager George Nungesser. "We now have a hot production line in the
shipyard where we can maintain our highly skilled shipbuilding
crews in the same working areas for each ship. This will allow
increased learning and provide the most efficient way to reduce
cost and schedule while building quality ships for the United
States Navy. We have a lot of experience and talent throughout our
program, and with the facilities to build ships simultaneously, we
will continue to improve as each ship is launched."
The five-ship contract, part of a multi-year procurement in the
DDG 51 program, allows Ingalls to build ships more efficiently by
buying bulk material and moving the skilled workforce from ship to
ship. With the contract, Ingalls will be building DDGs over the
next decade.
Ingalls has delivered 28 Arleigh Burke-class destroyers to the
Navy. Destroyers currently under construction at Ingalls are John
Finn (DDG 113), Ralph Johnson (DDG 114), Paul Ignatius (DDG 117)
and Delbert D. Black (DDG 119).
A photo accompanying this release is available at:
http://newsroom.huntingtoningalls.com/file?fid=551578075e8eef21a7d33e45.
Arleigh Burke-class destroyers are highly capable, multi-mission
ships that can conduct a variety of operations, from peacetime
presence and crisis management to sea control and power projection,
all in support of the United States' military strategy. DDGs are
capable of simultaneously fighting air, surface and subsurface
threats. The ship contains a myriad of offensive and defensive
weapons designed to support maritime defense needs well into the
21st century.
Huntington Ingalls Industries is America's largest military
shipbuilding company and a provider of manufacturing, engineering
and management services to the commercial and non-commercial
energy, oil and gas markets. For more than a century, HII's Newport
News and Ingalls shipbuilding divisions in Virginia and Mississippi
have built more ships in more ship classes than any other U.S.
naval shipbuilder. Headquartered in Newport News, Virginia, HII
employs approximately 38,000 people operating both domestically and
internationally. For more information, visit:
- HII on the web: www.huntingtoningalls.com
- HII on Facebook:
www.facebook.com/HuntingtonIngallsIndustries
- HII on Twitter: twitter.com/hiindustries
CONTACT: Bill Glenn
william.glenn@hii-co.com
228-935-1323
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