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HII Nabs Planning Contract For Zumwalt Hypersonic Missile Upgrade

Monday, January 9th, 2023

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HII Nabs Planning Contract For Zumwalt Hypersonic Missile Upgrade

Guided-missile destroyer USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000) sails through the Pacific Ocean on April 13, 2022 while underway in the U.S. 3rd Fleet. (Photo: U.S. Navy by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Christopher Sypert)

The Navy awarded HII [HII] a $10.5 million contract on Jan. 6 to plan the modernization work that will install the Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) hypersonic weapons on the Zumwalt-class destroyers. The work will occur at HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding facility in Pascagoula, Miss., and is expected to be finished by December 2023. General Dynamics’ Bath Iron Works (BIW) [GD] built the three Zumwalt-class destroyers, but HII built the ships while HII built the deckhouses. The Navy plans to replace the…

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