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Navy Contracts Ingalls For Destroyer

Defense Daily Staff

Monday, March 30th, 2015

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Navy Contracts Ingalls For Destroyer

The Navy has issued a $604 million contract to Huntington Ingalls Shipbuilding’s [HII] Ingalls unit for construction of an Arleigh Burke-class (DDG-51) destroyer.The contract is for hull DDG-121 and is the third ship of five the Pascagoula, Miss., yard is slated to build under a multi-year procurement.Ingalls has delivered 28 Arleigh Burke destroyers to the Navy and is under contract for the futures USS John Finn (DDG-113), USS Ralph Johnson (DDG-114), USS Paul Ignatius (DDG-117) and USS Delbert D. Black (DDG…

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