Overview
- Huntington Ingalls’ Ingalls Shipbuilding has extended its distributed modular construction approach to the San Antonio‑class amphibious transport dock line, beginning with USS Philadelphia (LPD 32).
- Under the plan, eight structural units for LPD 32 were awarded to two trusted partner shipyards and are already in early production for later integration at Pascagoula, Mississippi.
- Ingalls says the move copies lessons from its Flight III Arleigh Burke destroyer work, where partner‑built modules arrived ahead of schedule and supported earlier sequencing on DDG 135.
- The company reports it doubled distributed workload last year and expects to raise outsourced shipbuilding hours by about 30% in 2026, with amphibious programs making up a significant share.
- HII frames the LPD 32 effort as a pilot that could increase parallel workstreams, relieve capacity constraints at the main yard, speed deliveries of Navy ships, and strengthen the U.S. maritime industrial base.