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Navy/USMC

Navy’s Move To Steel Deckhouse On DDG-1000 Forces HII To Close Facility

Defense Daily Staff

Thursday, September 5th, 2013

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Navy’s Move To Steel Deckhouse On DDG-1000 Forces HII To Close Facility

Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII] said Wednesday it plans to shutter a facility in Gulfport, Miss. following the Navy’s decision to abandon a composite deckhouse for the third and final ship of the new class of Zumwalt (DDG-1000) destroyers. The Navy announced Aug. 5 that it had awarded General Dynamics [GD] a $212-million contract for the construction of a steel deckhouse for the future USS Lyndon B. Johnson (DDG-1002). The first DDG-1000 under construction at General Dynamics Bath Iron Works. Photo by…

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