The U.S. Navy solicited bids for a lower cost steel deckhouse as an option for DDG-1002, the last "Zumwalt" destroyer, in January 2013. On 2 August 2013, the US Navy announced it was awarding a $212 million contract to General Dynamics Bath Iron Works to build a steel deckhouse for destroyer "Lyndon B. Johnson" (DDG-1002). The U.S. Naval Institute stated "the original design of the ship would have had a much smaller RCS, but cost considerations prompted the Navy over the last several years to make the trades in increasing RCS to save money..."