Keel Laid: February 14, 2004 
 Christened: August 19, 2006
 Commissioned: October 24, 2009

 Builder: Ingalls Shipbuilding, West Bank, Pascagoula, Miss.
 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: 27.3 feet
 Displacement: approx. 41,335 tons full load
 Speed: 20+ knots
 Acommodations: Ship: 102 officers, 78 CPO, 1024 enlisted; 
                             Troops: 174 officers, 64 CPO, 1449 enlisted
 Armament: 
   - two Rolling Airframe Missile Systems 
   - two Mk-29 NATO Sea Sparrow launchers          
   - two 20mm Phalanx CIWS 
   - four Mk-33 .50 cal. machine guns
   - three Mk-38 25mm chain guns