{"id":1346884,"date":"2022-02-27T07:55:15","date_gmt":"2022-02-27T12:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1346884"},"modified":"2022-02-27T08:09:40","modified_gmt":"2022-02-27T13:09:40","slug":"new-details-emerge-about-u-s-navys-next-generation-guided-missile-destroyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-details-emerge-about-u-s-navys-next-generation-guided-missile-destroyer\/","title":{"rendered":"New Details Emerge About U.S. Navy\u2019s Next-Generation Guided-Missile Destroyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-details-emerge-about-u-s-navys-next-generation-guided-missile-destroyer%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1346884&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2 class=\"title-alt-01\"><span class=\"font-color-01\">Navy Reveals Details About Next-Generation Guided-Missile Destroyer<\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"article-main-img\">\n                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nationaldefensemagazine.org\/-\/media\/sites\/magazine\/2022\/02\/ddgx6.ashx?h=500&#038;w=878&#038;la=en&#038;hash=966FF428372AD4924C88399B210C402A\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n                                    <span>Draft design concept of  the DDG(X)<\/span>\n                            <\/div>\n<p class=\"photo-credit\">Navy concept<\/p>\n<p>The Navy is sharing details about one of its most anticipated shipbuilding programs, the DDG(X) large surface combatant. The service\u2019s next-generation guided missile destroyer will maximize design efficiency and interoperability and will feature an upgraded hull and integrated power system, according to service leaders.<\/p>\n<p>The platform will leverage the Flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyer\u2019s combat systems capability, said Tom Rivers, executive director for the amphibious, auxiliary and sealift office at the Navy\u2019s program office for ships under Naval Sea Systems Command. <\/p>\n<p>Commonality will be key for the fleet of the future, he noted during a panel at the Surface Navy Association\u2019s annual symposium.<\/p>\n<p>A program office for guided missile destroyers was established last summer, Rivers said. Plans for the vessel include a new hull form and an integrated power system, which will allow flexibility for future upgrades, he said.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe envision DDG(X) to not only be the most capable surface combatant on the planet in the 2030s, but also through the 2060s,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe combat system piece is pretty set,\u201d he said. \u201cThe piece that we\u2019re focusing on is really enlarging the hull so that we have the capacity from a volumetrics standpoint in the future to allow new systems to be installed as we go forward in the next 15 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The program office is changing its approach to ship production and development to stave off some of the problems encountered with the large-scale integration of new technologies in the Zumwalt- and Ford-class ships, Rivers said. Shipbuilders should aim to develop technologies once and use those designs as many times as possible, he added. <\/p>\n<p>Directed energy will be a critical component for DDG(X), said Bob Shevock, executive director of the program executive office for integrated warfare systems. The High Energy Laser with Integrated Optical-dazzler and Surveillance, or HELIOS, will be installed on the vessel despite congressional concerns about the technology\u2019s supply base and other shortcomings. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to get HELIOS on the ship,\u201d Shevock said during the panel. \u201cIt is somewhat dependent on the technology of the actual lasers and the power coming behind,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, questions remain about the strategic value of the program. <\/p>\n<p>The Navy should provide additional clarification on the choice to invest in new capabilities for the ship, said Ronald O\u2019Rourke, a specialist in naval affairs at the Congressional Research Service. He pointed to studies that have shown lengthening the hull of the ship would provide a design with greater payload capacity even though there is no need for additional capabilities. <\/p>\n<p>In general, if the Navy doesn\u2019t justify its investments with analysis, \u201cit can weaken the foundations of the program and make it harder for the Navy to defend or explain the program later on,\u201d O\u2019Rourke said. <\/p>\n<p>The Navy\u2019s proposed budget for fiscal year 2022 requests $121.8 million in research-and-development funding for the program. As of press time, a full-year appropriations bill for 2022 had not been passed by Congress.<\/p>\n<p>\n                                <strong class=\"font-color-01 font-size-02\">Topics:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationaldefensemagazine.org\/articles?Topic={7D6C8227-2F06-43B9-A9A0-05BDE130008C}\">Shipbuilding<\/a>\n                            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Navy Reveals Details About Next-Generation Guided-Missile Destroyer  Draft design concept of the DDG(X) Navy concept The Navy is sharing details about one of its most anticipated shipbuilding<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1346884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1346884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1346884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1346884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1346884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}