A shipbuilding business of Huntington Ingalls Industries has reached a 70-percent completion milestone on the structural work for a future Ford-class aircraft carrier. Newport News Shipbuilding has assembled 317 lifts for the USS John F. Kennedy nuclear-powered aircraft carrier since the keel laying in August 2015, HII said Thursday. The company expects a total of 447 lifts to […] More

Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Ingalls Shipbuilding division has provided $101,000 in grant funds to support 26 science, technology, engineering and math programs in two Gulf Coast states. The company said Tuesday it has awarded more than $911,000 to different STEM projects and initiatives to over the past 10 years. Edmond Hughes, vice president of human resources and administration at […] More

The U.S. Navy‘s guided missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald arrived in Pascagoula, Mississippi on Friday to undergo repair and upgrade efforts at a Huntington Ingalls Industries  shipyard. A heavy-lift vessel transported the Arleigh Burke-class ship from Yokosuka, Japan and will stay in the Port of Pascagoula for several days before the destroyer heads to its designated pier space at HII’s facility, the Navy […] More

Huntington Ingalls Industries has received a potential $468 million contract from General Dynamics to support integrated product and process development work on the U.S. Navy‘s fleet of Columbia-class submarines. HII said Tuesday it will help complete the design of the Navy Columbia-class submarines as well as provide component development, detail planning and technical support services. […] More

Huntington Ingalls Industries has launched the eighth National Security Cutter that HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division built for the U.S. Coast Guard ahead of the vessel’s scheduled Dec. 9 christening ceremony. The company said Wednesday Ingalls Shipbuilding used a rail car system to move Midgett NSC to a floating dry dock last week and deployed the vessel early Wednesday morning through the […] More

Philip Bilden, a former military intelligence officer and co-founding member of private equity firm HarbourVest Partners, has joined Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ board of directors. HII said Monday Bilden has held senior leadership roles during his 25-year career at HarbourVest that includes time at the company’s offices in Boston and Hong Kong where he established its Asian subsidiary. […] More

Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ shipbuilding division hosted a christening ceremony Saturday for the U.S. Navy‘s future Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer Delbert D. Black (DDG 119). HII said Saturday approximately 1,200 people attended the event at the company’s shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi and Steven Giordano, master chief petty officer of the Navy, delivered the keynote address. Ima Black, widow of World War II […] More

The U.S. Navy has awarded Huntington Ingalls Industries a $9.9 million order for engineering, design, liaison, material procurement, program management and scheduling services to facilitate the post-shakedown availability of USS Ralph Johnson destroyer ship. Seventy-five percent of the work will occur in Pascagoula, Mississippi, and the remaining 25 percent will take place in Everett, Washington, the Defense Department said […] More

Huntington Ingalls Industries has received a $65.1 million contract modification to provide dry docking services for the U.S. Navy‘s Los Angeles-class submarine USS Helena. The Defense Department said Friday HII will modernize, repair and maintain SSN 725 systems at a company shipyard in Newport News, Virginia, through April 2018. The Navy obligated $62.7 million at the time of award […] More

Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ technical solutions division has secured a potential five-year, $43 million contract to provide training support for multiple U.S. Navy tactical systems. HII said Thursday it is one of four contractors selected by the Navy to support training efforts for command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems used on tactical afloat shipboard, ashore and submarine platforms. […] More

Huntington Ingalls Industries and Ivis Technologies have forged an agreement to authorize the latter company to sell a compliance management software that the two firms jointly developed. HII said Tuesday it worked with Ivis to create a governance, risk and compliance system designed to simplify compliance management and apply human behavioral analysis to help mitigate employee […] More

Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Ingalls Shipbuilding unit has turned over the 11th San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock of the U.S. Navy. USS Portland (LPD 29) was delivered during a ceremony wherein a DD 250 document was signed to formally transfer custody of the vessel to the service branch, HII said Monday. The Navy’s Board of Inspection and […] More