General Dynamics Nassco-Norfolk (Va.) has been awarded a $183.2 million contract to repair and modernize the guided-missile destroyer USS Truxtun (DDG 103), which was damaged in a collision with a Navy support ship in the Caribbean Sea in February.
The Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) in Washington, D.C., awarded the firm-fixed-price contract on April 13, the Pentagon announced. The work, which covers the ship's Fiscal Year 2026 Depot Modernization Period, is expected to be completed by April 2028. Contract options, if exercised, would bring the total value to $183.6 million.
The contract was competitively procured through full and open competition via the System for Award Management (SAM) website, with two offers received. Funding includes $172.2 million in Fiscal Year 2026 other procurement (Navy) funds and $11 million in operations and maintenance funds.
Truxtun was damaged on February 11 when it collided with the fast combat support ship USNS Supply (T-AOE-6) during an underway replenishment operation in the Caribbean Sea. The Arleigh Burke-class destroyer had been approaching the Supply from one side while the guided-missile cruiser USS Gettysburg was simultaneously being refueled on the other side. Two sailors sustained minor injuries in the incident, and both ships remained able to navigate under their own power. The Navy relieved Truxtun's commanding officer of duty within days of the collision, citing a loss of confidence in his ability to command.
Truxtun is an Arleigh Burke-class Flight IIA Aegis guided-missile destroyer displacing approximately 9,200 tons. The 510'x59' ship has a complement of 380 and is armed with a 96-cell Mk 41 vertical launching system capable of firing Tomahawk cruise missiles, Standard surface-to-air missiles, and anti-submarine rockets, along with a 5" deck gun and two MH-60R Seahawk helicopters. It is the Navy's only ship equipped with an experimental hybrid electric drive system, fitted during a 2012 research and development program that was subsequently canceled for the broader fleet.
Built by Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Miss., Truxtun was commissioned in April 2009 and is homeported at Naval Station Norfolk. The ship is named for Commodore Thomas Truxtun (1755–1822), one of the first six naval commanders appointed by President George Washington, and is the sixth U.S. warship to bear his name.
