HII-built DDG commissioning in Fla.

SAN DIEGO - Secretary of the Navy Richard Spencer has approved Port Everglades, Fla., as the site for the commissioning of the future guided missile destroyer USS Paul Ignatius (DDG 117), which the Navy accepted from Huntington Ingalls’s shipyard in Pascagoula, Miss., on Feb. 22. The commissioning will be July 27. DDG-117 is the Navy's 67th Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer and will feature the Aegis Baseline 9 combat system that will allow the ship to simultaneously patrol for ballistic missile threats as well as combat traditional air and cruise missiles threats. (Source: U.S. Pacific Fleet 03/14/19)