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The DDG(X) program office was established in June 2021. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] In February 2022, Gibbs & Cox was contracted to provide design and engineering support. [ 12 ] The Navy is retaining the lead design role.
A guided-missile destroyer (DDG) is a destroyer whose primary armament is guided missiles so they can provide anti-aircraft warfare screening for the fleet. The NATO standard designation for these vessels is DDG , while destroyers which have a primary gun armament or a small number of anti-aircraft missiles sufficient only for point-defense are ...
PEO (USC) provides the Navy with the design, development, build, maintenance and modernization of unmanned maritime systems, mine warfare systems and small surface combatants. This PEO was established in March 2018 with the renaming of the Program Executive Office Littoral Combat Ship (PEO LCS) as Program Executive Office, Unmanned and Small ...
Since then, the 22-foot (6.7 m) radar system has been canceled with the CG(X), and it has been determined that a 14-foot (4.3 m) radar could be used either on DDG 51 or DDG 1000, though it would not have the performance the Navy predicts would be needed "to address the most challenging threats". [114]
An AMDR with a mid-diameter of 22 feet (6.7 m) had been proposed for CG(X), while the DDG 51 Flight III design could carry an AMDR with a mid-diameter of only 14 feet (4.3 m). [151] The Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that the design would be "at best marginally effective" because of the "now-shrunken radar". The U.S. Navy ...
CGH-67 design (1986) U.S. Navy proposed DDG(X) destroyer In 2020, Japanese Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi announced plans to build 2 new Aegis destroyers to replace its scrapped land-based Aegis Ashore ballistic missile interceptors program .
DDG 53 I Bath Iron Works 8 August 1990 26 October 1991 18 December 1993 Everett, Washington Active Curtis Wilbur DDG 54 I Bath Iron Works 12 March 1991 16 May 1992 19 March 1994 San Diego, California Active Stout DDG 55 I Ingalls Shipbuilding 8 August 1991 16 October 1992 13 August 1994 Norfolk, Virginia Active John S. McCain DDG 56 I Bath Iron ...
USS Thomas G. Kelley (DDG-140) is a planned Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer of the United States Navy, the 90th overall for the class. [4] She will honor Captain Thomas G. Kelley (USN, Ret.), who as a then-Lieutenant serving in Vietnam, was awarded the Medal of Honor "For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty".