The US Navy Is Throwing More Money at the Zumwalt-Class Destroyers

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An extra $213 million for the Zumwalt class’ weapons systems is a drop in the bucket for the three notoriously expensive warships.

The United States Navy has just three Zumwalt-class “stealth” destroyers in service, but the warships remain a proverbial hole in the water. That point was underscored this week after RTX subsidiary Raytheon was awarded a $213.4 million contract modification by the US Navy to support the destroyers’ combat systems.

The new cost-plus-incentive-fee contract will exercise options from the previous award. It will cover the installation, integration, development, testing, correction, maintenance, and modernization of the core mission systems.

Work on the systems will be spread out to multiple locations, with the primary efforts conducted in Portsmouth, Rhode Island; Tewksbury, Massachusetts; and Pascagoula, Mississippi. Additional work will take place at Nashua, New Hampshire; San Diego, California; and Fort Wayne, Indiana. Naval Sea Systems Command in Washington, DC, is the awarding agency, and the work is expected to run through April 2027.

The defense firm has worked with the US Navy to formulate a plan........

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