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U.S. Navy DDG 1000 Zumwalt Class Destroyer Home

Seapower for the Missions of the Future

The DDG 1000 Zumwalt-class destroyer is America’s next generation, multi-mission, naval destroyer, serving as the vanguard of an entire new generation of advanced multi-mission surface combat ships.

Under the U.S. Navy's DDG 1000 Detail Design and Integration contract awarded in 2005, Raytheon Integrated Defense System (IDS) serves as the prime mission systems equipment integrator for all of the leading-edge electronic and combat systems for the Zumwalt-class destroyer program. Working with the Navy and a team of industry leaders, IDS is leading the effort to transform the Navy's ship requirements to reality.

Zumwalt’s advanced mission capabilities are driven by 10 critical technologies that give the ship unprecedented versatility in a variety of operational environments and dramatically reduce manning requirements. The systems’ open architecture design enables commonality across the U.S. Navy’s entire family of ships, which will pay dividends for years to come.

Zumwalt Delivers

Unmatched warfighting capabilities
Tested and proven technologies
Scalability for both forward fit into the Navy’s Family of Ships and backfit into legacy fleet
Meets known and anticipated future threats
Design margin for new capabilities and relevance well into the century

Zumwalt will be the centerpiece of seapower for the next 50 years.

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