BAE Systems has won a potential $48.4M contract from the U.S. Navy to modernize, repair and maintain the San Antonio-class USS Anchorage amphibious transport vessel.
Huntington Ingalls Industries has signed an agreement to sell its Avondale shipyard near New Orleans to an undisclosed buyer, The Maritime Executive reported Wednesday. HII Chief Financial Officer Chris Kastner said Wednesday during a conference call the company expects to wrap up the sale after the buyer completes a due diligence process. Northrop Grumman had operated Avondale until […] More
Huntington Ingalls Industries has evaluated systems that have been installed on the U.S. Navy‘s 11th San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship during a series of sea trials. HII said Monday its Ingalls Shipbuilding division operated USS Portland (LPD 27) in the Gulf of Mexico for four days and performed anchor-handling, ballast and deballast, detect-to-engage, full power ahead, astern and […] More
Huntington Ingalls Industries has secured a $19.1 million contract modification to accelerate design work on the U.S. Navy‘s LX(R) amphibious ship replacement program. The Naval Sea Systems Command obligated $3 million at the time of the award of the modification from the Navy’s fiscal 2016 research, development, test and evaluation funds, the Defense Department said Wednesday. Work will […] 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
Mike Petters, president and CEO of Huntington Ingalls Industries, has recommended that the U.S. Navy launch its LX(R) dock landing ship development initiative two years earlier than originally planned in an interview with Reuters posted Tuesday. Petters told Reuters he believes pushing the start of that project forward from fiscal 2020 to fiscal 2018 will minimize a potential production-line gap between the first […] 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