Zumwalt Destroyer Supporters Hope For Revival

By Michael Fabey .

Any time a chief of naval operations (CNO) gets ready to leave, U.S. Navy shipbuilding programs on that CNO’s hit list look at the transition as a resurrection opportunity. And no vessel program would stand to benefit more from Adm. Gary Roughead’s departure this fall than the DDG-1000 Zumwalt destroyer.

Roughead painted a bull’s eye on the Zumwalt program ...

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