HII delivers DDG 17 to Navy

PASCAGOULA, Miss. - Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding division delivered the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer Paul Ignatius (DDG 117) to the Navy on Feb. 22. The signing of the DD 250 completion document officially transfers custody of the ship from HII to the Navy. Paul Ignatius is scheduled to sail away from HII-Pascagoula in June. It is the 31st Aegis destroyer that HII has delivered to the sea-service, and “well over our 80th time to deliver a Navy surface combatant on the banks of the Pascagoula River,” said George Nungesser, Ingalls’ DDG program manager. (Source: HII Ingalls 02/22/19)