President Donald Trump said they would be "AI-controlled" and he said that the design would be led by the US Navy with his aesthetic input.

The US Navy announced plans to build a new class of warship as part of President Donald Trump’s “Golden Fleet” bid to revive US shipbuilding and address shortfalls in smaller ships exposed by recent military operations around the world.

Trump announces new class of battleships that he says will be "the fastest, the biggest, and by far -- 100 times -- more powerful than any battleship ever built."

An American company will soon design and build the future small surface combatant (SSC) ship for the U.S. Navy. HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division has been selected to build the vessel. Ingalls shipbuilders will once again engage in construction activities alongside its destroyer and amphibious ship shipbuilding lines where the national security cutters were built,

A new Government Accountability Office report says the Navy is falling short of its fire safety goals in the wake of the devastating USS Bonhomme Richard fire.

The first hull is expected to hit the water in 2028 as a more nimble companion to the Navy’s larger warships, Navy Secretary John Phelan said.

Today, HII announced that its Ingalls Shipbuilding division has been selected by the U.S. Navy to design and build the future small surface combatant (SSC) ship, leveraging the proven design of the Ingalls-built Legend-class national security cutter (NSC).

Ingalls Shipbuilding already is building Navy destroyers (DDG), and amphibious ships (LPDs) at the Pascagoula shipyard in Jackson County, where 10 national security cutters were built for the Coast Guard over nearly 20 years, through 2023. It also is modernizing the Zumwalt-class of guided missile destroyers with technology upgrades.