Some industry executives have said their companies have made investments in their infrastructure in an effort to compete and win future contracts as the U.S. Navy ramps up spending on shipbuilding programs, USNI News reported Thursday. Todd Schurra, general manager of Curtiss-Wright, said at the Naval Submarine League symposium that the company invested approximately $50M in […] More

General Dynamics Electric Boat has awarded a $197M contract modification to Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Newport News Shipbuilding division for long-lead time materials and advance construction of the Columbia ballistic missile submarine. HII said Tuesday it will use funds to procure components and materials needed for advance construction of SSBN 826, the first vessel within the Columbia […] More

Huntington Ingalls Industries has selected Triumph Group to manufacture remote valve actuation systems required for the modernization of a U.S. Navy Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. Triumph said Wednesday its integrated systems business will supply 165 actuators from the company’s mechanical solutions facility in Shelbyville, Ind., for installation on the USS George Washington, or CVN-73. HII will modernize […] More

Huntington Ingalls Industries’ San Diego shipyard has won a potential $51.5M contract to help the U.S. Navy modernize an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer ship. The project will also include maintenance and repair work on the USS O’Kane as part of fiscal 2019 DDG 77 extended selected restricted availability efforts, the Defense Department said Friday. Naval Sea Systems Command received three offers […] More

Huntington Ingalls Industries has helped the U.S. Navy‘s Naval Sea Systems Command implement an additive manufacturing process to build metal parts for nuclear-powered vessels. The collaborative project aims to install a prototype piping assembly on the USS Harry S. Truman in early 2019 and subsequently test the structure onboard the warship over a one-year period, HII said Thursday. […] More

Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Newport News Shipbuilding unit has installed a 726-ton lower bow onto the John F. Kennedy nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, which the U.S. Navy aims to commission in late 2019. The bulbous lower bow extends CVN 79 by 122 feet and is the final component of the warship’s underwater hull structure that reaches 1,096 feet and […] More

A Huntington Ingalls Industries business unit has secured a potential five-year, $34M contract to help U.S. Navy coastal riverine forces maintain expeditionary equipment. HII said Monday its technical solutions group will provide engineering, logistics, technical and field team support as well as organizational and intermediate-level maintenance services to CORIVFOR groups one and two. The company will also help manage hull, […] More

The shipbuilding division of Huntington Ingalls Industries has authenticated the keel of a future Legend-class U.S. Coast Guard cutter, marking the start of the ship’s construction. Structural welder Demetrica Hawkins affixed a commemorative steel plate the WMSL 758 or National Security Cutter Stone during the keel-laying ceremony of  at HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding Division, the company said […] More

A Huntington Ingalls Industries shipbuilding division is halfway done with the construction of the U.S. Navy‘s future John F. Kennedy nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding business reached the milestone upon the installation of a 905-metric ton superlift unit on the Ford-class ship’s aft section located in the middle of the hangar bay and flight deck, the company said […] More

Huntington Ingalls Industries has cut the first 100 tons of steel for the 13th San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock as part of the ship’s fabrication start. LPD 29 or the Richard M. McCool, Jr. entered fabrication on July 30 in Pascagoula, Miss., under a design and construction contract awarded to the company on April 21, […] More

Huntington Ingalls Industries and the U.S. Navy launched Friday the service branch’s future Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer Frank E. Petersen Jr. at a company shipyard in Pascagoula, Miss. HII said Monday the ship, designated as DDG 121, was transferred to a floating dry dock with a rail car system, then the structure was moved away from the pier and ballasted down […] More

Federal contract obligations reached $512 billion in fiscal 2017, hitting the highest level since agencies spent $522 billion in fiscal 2012, Bloomberg Government reported Thursday. The 2018 BGOV200 report showed that contract obligations received by the top 200 government contractors in fiscal 2017 accounted for 64 percent, or approximately $327 billion, of the total contract spending […] More