U.S. Navy photo of the USS McCampbell (DDG-85)
The Navy has issued General Dynamics [GD] Bath Iron Works $610 million in funding for the construction of an Arleigh Burke-class (DDG-51) destroyer.
The funding is for hull number 122 in the class of guided missile destroyers, and is part of a multi-year procurement for the ships with General Dynamics and Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII], which builds the vessels in Pascagoula, Miss.
The Navy has issued a $604 million contract to HII’s Ingalls unit for construction of hull number 121 that was also part of the 2015 fiscal year procurement plan.
There are three DDG-51 destroyers in production at Bath Iron Works, the futures USS Rafael Peralta (DDG-115), USS Thomas Hudner (DDG-116) and USS Daniel Inouye (DDG-118).