Flight III Destroyer Ted Stevens (DDG 128) Sails Away from HII's Ingalls Shipbuilding

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 perfor In 2026, HII plans to outsource more than 2.5 million hours of shipbuilding work, while expanding i