The U.S. Navy has accepted delivery of a new Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer made by Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Ingalls Shipbuilding division. The Frank E. Petersen destroyer, also known as DDG 121, underwent a signing ceremony on Tuesday to become formally owned by the Navy, HII said Thursday. Arleigh Burke-class ships are designed to support […] More

The U.S. Navy christened a new Virginia-class attack submarine made by Huntington Ingalls Industries and an Austal USA-built expeditionary fast transport ship in two separate ceremonies Saturday. HII said its Newport News Shipbuilding division hosted the christening of SSN 796 or the submarine that will be known as New Jersey. SSN 796 is the 23rd […] More

Huntington Ingalls Industries has received $20 million in cost modification award from the U.S. Navy to cover capital expenditure initiatives for industrial base efforts that support the development of Arleigh Burke-class destroyers. The award modifies HII’s existing DDG 51 development contract to shipbuilding supplier activities aimed at ensuring the readiness of the Navy’s fleet, the […] More

Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Ingalls Shipbuilding division and the U.S. Navy have completed the builder’s sea trials of the service branch’s 12th San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock vessel. The team evaluated the readiness of the future USS Fort Lauderdale and its systems ahead of the ship’s acceptance trials and inclusion in the naval fleet, the Naval […] More

Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Ingalls Shipbuilding division has completed the final acceptance trials of the U.S. Navy’s future Arleigh-Burke class guided-missile destroyer Frank E. Petersen Jr. Kari Wilkinson, president of Ingalls Shipbuilding, said in a statement published Friday the recent milestone brings the DDG 121, named after the Marine Corps’ first African-American general officer, one step […] More

Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Ingalls Shipbuilding division has finished the builder’s trials for an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer for the U.S. Navy. The Frank E. Petersen Jr. (DDG 121) ship, named after the first African American aviator and general officer of the U.S. Marine Corps, underwent combat system testing in the Gulf of Mexico for […] More

Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Newport News Shipbuilding division has started the construction of the U.S. Navy’s fourth Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier that the service branch plans to use for global sea lane protection and national security strategy implementation initiatives. The future aircraft carrier Doris Miller (CVN 81) is part of a contract for ship design […] More

Jack Norris, formerly a senior program manager for Covington Civil and Environmental, has joined Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ (NYSE: HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding division to serve as director of state and local government affairs. He brings more than two decades of government relations experience to his new position and his responsibilities will include working with the division’s […] More

The U.S. Navy has awarded a $94.8 million delivery order to the Newport News Shipbuilding division of Huntington Ingalls Industries for ship support work as part of the planned incremental availability of USS Gerald R. Ford, dubbed as CVN-78. The cost-plus-fixed-fee, cost-plus-incentive-fee and firm-fixed-price delivery order is under the Naval Sea Systems Command’s contract awarded […] More

Ingalls Shipbuilding, a Pascagoula, Mississippi-based division of Huntington Ingalls Industries, launched on Friday the future Jack H. Lucas (DDG 125), which is the first Flight III Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer of the U.S. Navy. HII said Friday DDG 125 will be equipped with Raytheon Technologies-built AN/SPY-6(V)1 radar arrays to provide the ship with ballistic […] More

Huntington Ingalls Industries has received an order from the U.S. Navy for two small unmanned underwater vehicles that have an open architecture design and a maximum endurance of 30 hours. The company said Tuesday it expects to deliver the REMUS 300 UUVs to the military service in mid-2022. Duane Fotheringham, president of the unmanned systems […] More

Huntington Ingalls Industries has commenced testing of an unmanned surface vessel designed to traverse the waters autonomously. HII said Thursday the Proteus USV demonstrated autonomous performance through its SM300 system made by Sea Machines Robotics. During the May 14 demonstration, Proteus used GPS, radar technology, a 360-degree camera and other sensors to navigate waters off […] More