HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division successfully concluded builder’s sea trials for USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000) on January 21, 2026, marking the first at-sea validation of the Navy’s inaugural Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) platform. Zumwalt arrived at the Pascagoula, Mississippi, yard in August 2023, was moved onto land for a comprehensive refit that replaced twin 155 mm Advanced Gun Systems with missile tubes, and undocked in December 2024. Over a three-week period, Ingalls and Navy engineers executed propulsion, navigation and weapons-system checks, confirming integration of hypersonic-capable launch cells. Brian Blanchette, president of Ingalls, noted that these trials set a technical precedent for the class. Sister ships USS Michael Monsoor and USS Lyndon B. Johnson are either scheduled or in progress for CPS integration, underscoring HII’s role in fielding a stealth destroyer fleet with next-generation strike reach.

HII’s Mission Technologies division was named one of 12 awardees on the Department of Defense’s Advanced Technology Support Program V, a 10-year, $25.4 billion multiple-award indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract managed by the Defense Microelectronics Activity. Effective January 20, 2026, the award grants rapid access to microelectronics and software engineering for all DoD and select civilian agencies. HII will leverage more than 20 years of reverse-engineering and assurance expertise, employing proprietary model-based tools to tackle obsolescence, prototyping, simulation, integration and limited production. Grant Hagen, president of Warfare Systems, highlighted the contract’s importance for warfighter survivability and mission success, noting that HII’s team will deliver end-to-end solutions—from system analysis through extended producibility—to sustain critical defense platforms.