Gen. Robert Neller, commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, has visited a shipyard run by Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Ingalls Shipbuilding division in Pascagoula, Mississippi. Ingalls executives briefed Neller on the four classes of military ships the division is currently building for the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard, HII said Wednesday. Neller also toured the amphibious assault ship Tripoli (LHA 7) and […] More

A Huntington Ingalls Industries division has demonstrated a radar system on the U.S. Navy‘s Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier with the use of a special-instrumented F-18  Super Hornet. During the test, HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding examined the functionality, alignment and operation of the Precision Aircraft Landing System and its subsystems as the Super Hornet flew within 500 feet of […] More

Huntington Ingalls Industries and General Dynamics‘ Electric Boat subsidiary have completed the pressure hull construction phase of a submarine development project for the U.S. Navy. HII said Tuesday the team has joined the hull sections of Indiana, the 16th Virginia-class submarine, to form a single watertight unit for the vessel scheduled for delivery to the Navy in the third quarter of 2017. “We […] More

Mark Fox, a retired U.S. Navy vice admiral, has joined Huntington Ingalls Industries as corporate vice president of customer affairs at HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding division. He will succeed Evan “Marty” Chanik, also a retired Navy vice admiral who is scheduled to retire in October, in the role and will directly report to Mitch Waldman, […] More

Newport News Industrial, a Huntington Ingalls Industries subsidiary, will add 52,000 square feet to its headquarters in Newport News, Virginia to support the heavy steel fabrication work for commercial nuclear power customers. HII said Monday the facility expansion will look to create 120 new jobs and additional parking to support a projected larger workforce. “We at Newport News Industrial […] More

Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Ingalls Shipbuilding division held a keel-laying ceremony for the 32nd Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer that HII built for the U.S. Navy. The company said Wednesday the Delbert D. Black (DDG 119) is named after the first master chief petty officer of the Navy who was aboard USS Maryland during the Pearl Harbor attack. Black’s wife, Ima […] More

A Huntington Ingalls Industries division has christened the U.S. Navy’s 11th San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship at the former’s shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi. Ingalls Shipbuilding division held the christening ceremony for Portland (LPD 27) Saturday with U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Christopher Owens, director of the expeditionary warfare division at the Navy, as the keynote speaker, HII […] More

Mike Petters, president and CEO of Huntington Ingalls Industries, has said HII has secured approximately 20 percent of shipbuilding work on the U.S. Navy’s entire Ohio-class replacement program with General Dynamics as prime contractor. He told Defense News reporter Christoper Cavas in an interview published Sunday that ORP prompts HII to align its design plans as well as […] More

Huntington Ingalls Industries has delivered the USS John P. Murtha amphibious transport dock to the U.S. Navy. HII said Friday Richard Schenk, vice president for program management, signed the official DD 250 document to transfer the custody of the amphibious transport dock to the service branch. Schenk said the company aims to deliver two more ships to complete the class, which […] More

Greg Bury, former director of business development at Gas Liquids Engineering, has joined Huntington Ingalls Industries subsidiary UniversalPegasus International as vice president of business development for the unit’s Canadian operations. He will report directly to UPI President Philip Luna and bring more than 30 years of business development experience to his new position, HII said Tuesday. […] More

Huntington Ingalls Industries has added a new structure designed to update the construction workflow on a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier at its Newport News Shipbuilding dry dock facility. HII’s 965-ton “superlift” will work to support the continued development of the U.S. Navy’s future John F. Kennedy carrier, which the company said Tuesday is currently 17 percent complete ahead of its scheduled launch in 2020. […] More

An amphibious transport dock that Huntington Ingalls Industries designed and built for the U.S. Navy has completed a series of builder’s tests in the Gulf of Mexico. HII said March 7 its Ingalls Shipbuilding division performed more than 200 test events on the USS John P. Murtha (LPD 26) during at-sea trials that lasted for four days. The ship is the 10th […] More