Huntington Ingalls Industries prepared U.S. Air Force pilots in Europe for fights against enemy aircraft during the first-ever air combat training mission run by a contractor. HII said Wednesday the mission in December, which was part of a multi-role operations task order, provided data on the effectiveness, suitability and interoperability of contractor-owned, contractor-operated training for […] More

Christopher Kastner, most recently chief operating officer of Huntington Ingalls Industries, officially assumed responsibilities as president and CEO of HII on Tuesday and plans to continue transforming HII from a shipbuilding company into a provider of defense technologies across the globe, Defense News reported. “HII’s unique capabilities are critical to America’s security, and we have […] More

Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Ingalls Shipbuilding division has launched the U.S. Navy’s future 13th San Antonio-class landing platform dock for amphibious assault, expeditionary warfare missions and special operations. USS Richard M. McCool Jr. was transported via rail from the shipbuilder’s facility in Pascagoula, Mississippi, and mounted on a floating dry dock at a pier before the […] More

The U.S. Navy has issued a $70.9 million sole-source award to Huntington Ingalls Industries to procure long lead time material of an amphibious assault ship. The undefinitized contract action marks the seventh LLTM increment under an HII-held contract issued on April 30, 2020, the Department of Defense said Monday. HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division will use […] More

Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Ingalls Shipbuilding division has begun fabrication activities for George M. Neal, a new Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer it will deliver to the U.S. Navy. The ship follows 33 existing Arleigh Burke-class destroyers the shipbuilder already hander over to the service branch, HII said Monday. George M. Neal’s name honors a veteran […] More

Huntington Ingalls Industries has received $20 million in cost modification award from the U.S. Navy to cover capital expenditure initiatives for industrial base efforts that support the development of Arleigh Burke-class destroyers. The award modifies HII’s existing DDG 51 development contract to shipbuilding supplier activities aimed at ensuring the readiness of the Navy’s fleet, the […] More

Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Ingalls Shipbuilding division has completed the final acceptance trials of the U.S. Navy’s future Arleigh-Burke class guided-missile destroyer Frank E. Petersen Jr. Kari Wilkinson, president of Ingalls Shipbuilding, said in a statement published Friday the recent milestone brings the DDG 121, named after the Marine Corps’ first African-American general officer, one step […] More

Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Ingalls Shipbuilding division has finished the builder’s trials for an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer for the U.S. Navy. The Frank E. Petersen Jr. (DDG 121) ship, named after the first African American aviator and general officer of the U.S. Marine Corps, underwent combat system testing in the Gulf of Mexico for […] More

Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Newport News Shipbuilding division has started the construction of the U.S. Navy’s fourth Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier that the service branch plans to use for global sea lane protection and national security strategy implementation initiatives. The future aircraft carrier Doris Miller (CVN 81) is part of a contract for ship design […] More

The U.S. Navy has awarded a $94.8 million delivery order to the Newport News Shipbuilding division of Huntington Ingalls Industries for ship support work as part of the planned incremental availability of USS Gerald R. Ford, dubbed as CVN-78. The cost-plus-fixed-fee, cost-plus-incentive-fee and firm-fixed-price delivery order is under the Naval Sea Systems Command’s contract awarded […] More

Ingalls Shipbuilding, a Pascagoula, Mississippi-based division of Huntington Ingalls Industries, launched on Friday the future Jack H. Lucas (DDG 125), which is the first Flight III Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer of the U.S. Navy. HII said Friday DDG 125 will be equipped with Raytheon Technologies-built AN/SPY-6(V)1 radar arrays to provide the ship with ballistic […] More

Huntington Ingalls Industries has received an order from the U.S. Navy for two small unmanned underwater vehicles that have an open architecture design and a maximum endurance of 30 hours. The company said Tuesday it expects to deliver the REMUS 300 UUVs to the military service in mid-2022. Duane Fotheringham, president of the unmanned systems […] More