The US Navy has awarded General Dynamics Bath Iron Works (GDBIW) a contract for the construction of the future USS Robert R. Ingram, the navy's 98th Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer.
The ship is named after retired US Navy Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Robert Roland Ingram, who was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Vietnam War.
Like her sister ship USS Louis H. Wilson Jr., the future Robert R. Ingram will be built in the flight III configuration at GDBIW's facilities in Bath, Maine.
The Arleigh Burke-class flight III destroyers will have improved capability and capacity to perform anti-air warfare and ballistic missile defence in support of the integrated air and missile defence mission.
The flight III ships will also each feature the AN/SPY-6(V)1 air and missile defence radar and incorporate upgrades to the electrical power and cooling capacity plus additional associated changes to provide greatly enhanced warfighting capability to the fleet.