Keel Laid: July 17, 2009 
         Christened: October 20, 2012
         Commissioned: October 11, 2014

         Builder: Huntington Ingalls Industries, Pascagoula, MS.
         Propulsion system: two LM2500+ gas turbines (35.000hp)
         Propellers: two
         Aircraft elevators: two
         Length: 844 feet 
         Flight Deck Width: 140 feet 
         Beam: 106 feet 
         Draft: 26 feet
         Displacement: 45,700 tons full load
         Speed: 20+ knots
         Armament: 
         - 2 Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) launchers  
         - 2 MK-29 Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile (ESSM) launchers          
         - 2 MK-15 20mm Phalanx CIWS
         - 3 MK-38 MOD 2 25mm Machine Gun System (MGS)   
         - 7 MK-95 MOD 1 .50 cal. machine guns 
         Homeport: Sasebo, Japan