Florida yard to build structural modules for US Navy amphibious transport dock

ESG Chief Executive and Chairman Joey D'Isernia said the company was ready to deliver the modules on schedule in 2027.

HII extended distributed construction to LPDs in July, beginning with the future Philadelphia. By then, awards to two partners covered eight structural units, and production was in its early stages.

"By shifting selected structural units to trusted partners, just as we've successfully done in the flight III destroyer program, we're enabling more parallel construction and freeing our Ingalls team to focus on the complex assembly and integration work that only a major shipyard can perform," Ingalls Shipbuilding President Brian Blanchette said at the time.

Fabrication of Philadelphia began in January 2025, and her keel was authenticated at Pascagoula in March 2026. At that time, she was one of three San Antonio-class flight II ships under construction at Ingalls, the others being USS Harrisburg and USS Pittsburgh.