HII has christened the U.S. Navy's third America-class amphibious assault ship, named after Bougainville Island in the Solomons in honor of a World War 2 campaign that dismantled the Japanese stronghold. Ellyn Dunford, wife of former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman and U.S. Marine Corps Commandant Joe Dunford Jr., sponsored the christening of USS Bougainville, the company said Saturday.

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HII's Ingalls Shipbuilding division recently held a keel-laying ceremony for the USS Fallujah, an America-class amphibious assault ship. HII announced Wednesday that its keel authentication event was witnessed by officials, including Undersecretary of the Navy Erik Raven and Donna Berger, the wife of former U.S. Marine Corps Commandant Lt. Gen. David Berger and the ship's sponsor. More

HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding subsidiary completed propulsion and supporting equipment tests of the new Calhoun ship at sea. The vessel will be the tenth Legend-class national security cutter to be delivered by Ingalls Shipbuilding to the U.S. Coast Guard, HII said Friday. The Calhoun, also known as WMSL 759, will be used by the service branch […] More

HII christened the U.S. Coast Guard’s 10th Legend-class national security cutter during a ceremony held at a facility of the company’s Ingalls Shipbuilding subsidiary in Pascagoula, Mississippi. USCGC Calhoun (WMSL 759) will join the military branch’s flagship fleet and support manned and unmanned aircraft during national security and defense support missions, such as preventing the […] 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

Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Ingalls Shipbuilding division has selected Aras to provide an enterprise product lifecycle management software for use in the shipyard’s engineering processes. Aras will deliver the Aras Innovator platform and work to standardize Ingalls Shipbuilding’s processes, systems and databases onto one platform, Aras said Monday. Ingalls Shipbuilding will use the Aras Innovator platform to handle models, […] More

Huntington Ingalls Industries will make a series of leadership moves within its Ingalls Shipbuilding division following the planned retirement of Richard Schenk from his role as vice president of program management. HII said Friday Kari Wilkinson will assume the role of Ingalls’ VP for program management on May 23 as the successor to Schenk, who will retire on July 1 after […] More

A Huntington Ingalls Industries division is set to hold a christening ceremony for the USS John P. Murtha amphibious transport dock on Saturday, with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi scheduled as a featured speaker. The event will take place at Ingalls Shipbuilding‘s Visitor Control Center a day after division President Brian Cuccias, Navy Capt. Kevin […] More

Huntington Ingalls Industries’ shipbuilding arm demonstrated its continued support to ensure skilled professions for high school undergraduates with a $53,640 donation to the Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College. HII said Wednesday that the money will be used to purchase welding machines for the school’s Transitions Academy at West Harrison County Center in Long Beach, Mississippi. “Ingalls […] More

Huntington Ingalls Industries unit Ingalls Shipbuilding is set to hold a christening ceremony for the Legend-class National Security Cutter James (WMSL 754) over the weekend, with U.S. Coast Guard Vice Commandant Vice Adm. Peter Neffenger scheduled as the keynote speaker The event will be held on Saturday at the Ingalls Shipbuilding Visitor Control Center, a day after Ingalls Shipbuilding President Brian Cuccias, Capt. Andrew Tiongson, […] More

Kevin Amis, DDG 1000 Program director at Ingalls Shipbuilding, highlighted the company’s latest contribution to the new generation of warships as it delivered the composite deckhouse for the U.S. Navy’s latest destroyer. The Huntington Ingalls Industries division manufactured the USS Michael Monsoor’s 900-ton carbon fiber structure at its Composite Center of Excellence facility in Gulfport, […] More

Sen. Thad Cochran visited an Huntington Ingalls Industries shipyard in Pascagoula, Miss. Monday to see the National Security Cutter Hamilton and other areas of the facility. “We were able to give him a tour of the yard and brief him on the four different classes of ships Ingalls is currently building for our U.S. Navy […] More