DDG 1001 already needs new engine

The Navy officially received its second Zumwalt-class destroyer, the future USS Michael Monsoor (DDG 1001), from General Dynamics’s Bath (Maine) Iron Works (BIW) shipyard on April 24. The only problem was the Navy already knew since February that the $4.6B ship already needed a new engine. News of the engine trouble broke when Rear Adm. William Galinis, program executive officer of ships at the Naval Sea Systems Command acknowledged the issue July 11 at a U.S. Navy League breakfast. One of the two $20M engines would need to be replaced before the ship could transition to its future homeport in San Diego, he said. The engine was damaged during sea trials early this year, and will be replaced at BIW. (Source: San Diego Union-Tribune 07/19/18)