USS Spruance (DDG-111)

USS Spruance (DDG-111) is an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer currently in service with the United States Navy. She is the 61st ship in her class.

Overview
Spruance is the second United States Navy ship (the first being the USS Spruance (DD-963) to be named for Admiral Raymond A. Spruance (1886–1969), who commanded American naval forces at the Battles of Midway and the Philippine Sea. He was later Ambassador to the Philippines.

Spruance keel was laid down on 14 May 2009. She was christened by the admiral's granddaughter, Ellen Spruance Holscher, on 5 June 2010 in Bath, Maine at Bath Iron Works, where the ship was built at a cost of $1 billion. The completed ship left Bath on 1 September 2011 for her commissioning in Key West, Florida before traveling to her home port of San Diego.

Spruance is outfitted with the latest technology. She is the first of the U.S. Navy's destroyers to be fitted with the Gigabit Ethernet Data Multiplex System (GEDMS), manufactured by the Boeing Company. GEDMS provides an Internet Protocol (IP) based backbone for video and data services on the ship. The bridge features touch screen controls and color readouts instead of gauges.

Commissioning
USS Spruance (DDG-111) was commissioned on 1 October 2011 in Key West, Florida with Commander Tate Westbrook in command of the ship.

Active duty
She sailed from San Diego on her maiden deployment on October 16, 2013, heading for Asia under the command of Commander George Kessler.