
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. -- On Tuesday the Navy provided status updates for the Zumwalt-class (DDG-1000) destroyers, including the fabrication status of the last ship set to deliver late next year. The last vessel, the future USS Lyndon B. Johnson (DDG-1002), is currently under construction at General Dynamics’ Bath Iron Works (BIW) [GD] shipyard in Bath, Maine. Capt. Kevin Smith, DDG-1000 program manager for PMS 500, said the shipbuilder finished about 85 percent of fabrication so far during a briefing here…