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Ingalls Shipbuilding Delivers Composite Deckhouse for Zumwalt class Destroyer Michael Monsoor.
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Industry News - USA |
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Ingalls
Shipbuilding Delivers Composite Deckhouse for Zumwalt class Destroyer
Michael Monsoor |
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Huntington
Ingalls Industries' Ingalls Shipbuilding division has delivered the
composite deckhouse for the Zumwalt-class
destroyer Michael Monsoor (DDG 1001) to the U.S. Navy. The 900-ton
deckhouse provides an advanced structure that will house the ship's
bridge, radars, antennae and intake/exhaust systems and is designed
to provide a significantly smaller radar cross-section than any other
ship in today's fleet. |
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 Thomas Capley (left) and John Fillmore (right) shake hands after signing the DD 250 document transferring ownership of the Michael Monsoor (DDG 1001) deckhouse to the U.S. Navy. Capley is a project engineer with Supervisor of Shipbuilding Gulf Coast; Fillmore is Ingalls’ DDG 1000 deckhouse program manager. Also celebrating the signing are (left to right) Brian Jones, design manager, Naval Sea Systems Command; Jonathan Graves, Program Manager’s Representative, SUPSHIP Gulf Coast; Capt. James Downey, program manager, DDG 1000 Program Office; Capt. Joseph Tuite, commanding officer, SUPSHIP Gulf Coast; H.W. Krohn, superintendent, Ingalls’ joiners/insulators; Jeff Roberts, DDG 1000 Program Office; and John Broderick, DDG 1000 Program Office. Photo by Lance Davis/HII |
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"This
is a very unique structure for a very unique ship," said Kevin
Amis, program director, DDG 1000 Program. "Wherever she goes in
the future, the shipbuilders of the Gulfport Composite Center of Excellence
will know that they had a hand in building one of the most complex carbon
fiber structures ever built." Ingalls built and delivered the composite deckhouse and hangar for DDGs 1000 and 1001 at the company's Composite Center of Excellence in Gulfport. Made almost exclusively using cored composite construction processes, the deckhouse and hangar take full advantage of the properties of the carbon fiber materials and balsa wood cores. The composite deckhouse provides the unique performance and technical capability necessary in the Zumwalt class of destroyers. The structure is as strong as steel, at significantly less weight. The composite deckhouse also reduces maintenance cost over the life span of the ship due to its corrosion resistance in the marine environment. |
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 The first ship, the future USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000), is now more than 90 percent complete at the Bath Iron Works shipyard, Bath, Maine, and is supported by Raytheon's Ship Integration and Test team onsite for ongoing system integration and testing. DDG 1001 and DDG 1002, also under construction at Bath, are now 78 and 8 percent complete respectively. (U.S. Navy photo courtesy of General Dynamics/Released) |
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"I am extremely proud of the men and women of the Supervisor of
Shipbuilding Gulf Coast and Ingalls Shipbuilding for their outstanding
accomplishment in manufacturing the DDG 1001 deckhouse," said Jonathan
Graves, DDG 1000 program manager's representative, Supervisor of Shipbuilding
Gulf Coast. "This complex and cutting-edge composite deckhouse
will serve as the heart of the USS Michael Monsoor. We are extremely
honored to have a role in celebrating a great American and Medal of
Honor-winning hero." The deckhouse will be placed on a barge and shipped to General Dynamics Bath Iron Works in Maine to be integrated onto the steel hull of DDG 1001. Link to Zumwalt-class destroyer technical datasheet |