Ingalls awarded $604.3 million contract to build third of five DDG 51 destroyers

Ingalls Shipbuilding has received a $604.3 million contract modification to build another Arleigh Burke-class (DDG51) Aegis guided missile destroyer for the U.S. Navy.

DDG121 is the third of the five DDG51 destroyers the company was awarded in June 2013.

"The DDG 51 program has been the backbone of Ingalls Shipbuilding for the past three decades," said DDG 51 Program Manager George Nungesser.

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