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Huntington Ingalls Industries has concluded initial sea trials for the U.S. Navy’s future USS Delaware submarine, SSN 791.

Nonprofit charity organization Disabled American Veterans has selected Huntington Ingalls Industries as large employer of the year in recognition of the company’s veteran hiring initiatives.

Mike Petters, CEO of Huntington Ingalls Industries and a former Wash100 winner, said the company expects the U.S. Navy to request more unmanned undersea vehicles in the future to meet the service’s new mission requirements, USNI News reported Tuesday.

Maxar Technologies announced on Friday that Carolyn Pittman, a former executive of Northrop Grumman and Huntington Ingalls Industries' Newport News Shipbuilding division, has been appointed senior vice president and chief accounting officer for Maxar. Her appointment is effective Aug. 7.

Huntington Ingalls Industries holds a position on a potential $2.45B U.S. Navy contract to help Naval Information Warfare Systems Command install command, control, communications, computer, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platforms. HII said Monday it is among the six contractors selected by the military branch to support afloat systems installation efforts through the contract.

Huntington Ingalls Industries is closer to deploying the future USS Delaware submarine vessel, SSN 791, which is currently is stationed pierside at the company’s Newport News Shipbuilding business’ facility and is set to enter the final phase of testing and construction efforts.

Huntington Ingalls Industries received a two-year, $40M contract modification to perform additional refueling and complex overhaul work for the U.S. Navy’s nuclear-powered USS George Washington aircraft carrier.

Huntington Ingalls Industries is sponsoring National Parent Teacher Association’s effort to support science, technology, engineering and mathematics education.

Huntington Ingalls Industries has completed the flight deck of the John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) aircraft carrier with the installation of the ship’s upper bow section at the company’s Newport News Shipbuilding division in Virginia.

Huntington Ingalls Industries has chosen 89 new scholarship recipients for 2019-2020 school year through an initiative that seeks to assist selected dependent children of HII employees in the pursuit of collegiate and technical degrees.

Fincantieri has fortified its FREMM frigate design with the addition of hundreds of tons of steel in order to meet the U.S. Navy’s requirements for the FFG(X) guided-missile frigate development program, Defense News reported Friday.

Don Hamadyk, director of research and development at Huntington Ingalls Industries' Newport News Shipbuilding division, has been appointed chairman of the executive control board for the National Shipbuilding Research Program.

Jaime O’Keefe Orlando, former senior director of strategic communications at Peraton, has been appointed senior director of communications within the technical solutions group at Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII).

Huntington Ingalls Industries landed the future USS John F. Kennedy aircraft carrier’s island onto its flight deck during a ceremony at the firm’s Newport News location.

Huntington Ingalls Industries has started construction work on the U.S. Navy's lead Columbia-class (SSBN 826) ballistic missile submarine through a cut-of-steel ceremony at the firm's Newport News Shipbuilding facility. HII said Thursday it secured a contract from General Dynamics' Electric Boat subsidiary to perform advance construction efforts for the vessels, which will developed using digital blueprints and replace the service's fleet of Ohio-class submarines.