DID's FOCUS Article for the DDG-1000 Zumwalt Class "destroyer" program covers the new ships' capabilities and technologies, key controversies, associated contracts and costs, and related background resources.The ship's prime missions are to
Gerald R Ford class is a fleet of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers being developed by the Newport News Shipbuilding division of Huntington Ingalls Industries for the US navy, under its CVN-21 Aircraft Carrier Program.
In April 2009 Bath and Ingalls agreed to the Navy's surface combatant plans, thus heralding a significant restructuring within the American naval shipbuilding community. Under the agreements, the USA would end production at 3 Graf Spee sized