Built and delivered by Ingalls, DDG 128 is the second Flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyer. The ship represents the next generation of surface combatants, featuring the Flight III AN/SPY-6(V)1 radar system and the Aegis Baseline 10 combat system designed to counter evolving threats well into the 21st century.

The Arleigh Burke-class destroyer is the main surface combatant class of the United States Navy and one of the most capable multi-role destroyer classes ever built. Designed during the Cold War and continuously upgraded since the late 1980s, these ships perform air defense, missile defense, anti-submarine warfare, anti-surface warfare, and strike missions.

The Arleigh Burke-class destroyer is a modern class of guided missile destroyers that forms the core of the surface fleet of the United States Navy. Developed during the late Cold War period and introduced into service in the early 1990s, these warships were designed to perform a wide range of missions, including air defense, anti-submarine warfare, anti-surface combat, long-range strike operations, and ballistic missile defense. The ships are constructed mainly by HII Ingalls Shipbuilding and General Dynamics Bath Iron Works. Over the years, the class has become one of the most successful and widely used destroyer programs in naval history.

Ingalls Shipbuilding currently has five additional Flight III destroyers under construction, with seven more in early pre-planning and material procurement phases. To increase throughput and meet growing demand from the Navy, Ingalls is executing a distributed shipbuilding initiative, partnering with shipyards and fabricators beyond the company’s traditional labor market to improve schedule performance across all programs, according to a press release.

In 2026, HII plans to outsource more than 2.5 million hours of shipbuilding work, while expanding its structural assembly network of assembly partner companies, enabling more work to be completed outside the shipyard before final assembly, as per the release.