Chris Kastner, president and CEO of HII, said the mission technologies business accounts for approximately 25 percent of the company’s sales and will “outpace shipbuilding from a growth perspective,” Defense News reported Monday. The Newport News, Virginia-based contractor’s Technical Solutions division became HII Mission Technologies in late March, operating with six business groups: command, control, […] More

HII‘s Ingalls Shipbuilding unit has wrapped up acceptance trials for Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee (DDG 123), an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer that is one of five ships for the U.S. Navy currently in the production phase. DDG 123 is set to be the second destroyer to be named after Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee, the first woman […] More

HII has won the right to compete for task orders to support U.S. Navy training systems under two multiple-award contract vehicles worth potentially $341 million combined. The company said Monday it can vie for work to help the service branch develop, engineer, update, test, integrate, secure and maintain threat systems intended for tactical and electronic […] More

Raytheon Technologies's missile and defense business has provided a new AN/SPY-6 radar array for integration onto the U.S. Navy's first Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer with the Flight III combat system configuration.

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The U.S. Navy has concluded a series of acceptance trials for a Huntington Ingalls Industry-built America-class amphibious assault ship.

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The U.S. Navy will christen two of its future Virginia-class attack submarines on Saturday at General Dynamics and Huntington Ingalls Industries locations. The service branch will christen USS Vermont at a General Dynamics Electric Boat shipyard in Groton, Conn., while USS Delaware will be christened at an HII Newport News Shipbuilding site in Newport News, Va., the […] More

A shipbuilding division of Huntington Indalls Industries has introduced a program to offer startup funds for nonprofit organizations that aim to address key community needs in Virginia’s Hampton Roads region. HII said Friday its Newport News Shipbuilding business will support projects in the areas of education and workforce development, environmental stewardship, inclusion and diversity, and health, wellness, safety and human services […] More

The Newport News Shipbuilding division of Huntington Ingalls Industries has broken ground on a new joint manufacturing assembly facility to support the production of submarines and aircraft carriers. The company said Monday the facility will open in 2017 to help boost efficiency in HII’s contracts for the U.S. Navy‘s Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers and Virginia-class submarines. Matt Mulherin, president […] More