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Friday, 09 March 2018 16:54

Construction starts on LGN ATB

PASCAGOULA, Miss. - A start of construction ceremony at VT Halter Marine‘s Pascagoula facility has held March 8 for the first U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) articulated tug/barge unit (LNG ATB). The ATB will be owned by New Orleans-based Q-LNG Transportation. The company...

Friday, 09 March 2018 16:31

Contract: HII, $77.6M

Huntington Ingalls Inc. - Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Miss., is being awarded a $77,561,557 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract modification (N00024-17-C-4444) for the execution of USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62) emergent repair and restoration. This effort shall provide for the...

Tuesday, 06 March 2018 16:34

Ingalls exec to be keynote speaker

PASCAGOULA, Miss. - Brian Cuccias, executive vice president of Huntington Ingalls Industries and president of Ingalls Shipbuilding, will be the keynote speaker at the 29th annual Jackson County Industrial Trade Show on March 20. The event at the B.E. "Mac" McGinty Civic Center is...

Thursday, 01 March 2018 00:53

Contract: HII, $7M

Huntington Ingalls Industries, Pascagoula, Miss., is being awarded a $7,023,780 cost-plus-fixed-fee modification to a previously awarded contract (N00024-14-C-2410) for continued LX(R) Amphibious Ship Replacement program acceleration and affordability initiatives. Ingalls will be...

Saturday, 17 February 2018 00:34

Contract: HII, $1.43B

Huntington Ingalls Industries, Pascagoula, Miss., is being awarded a $1,430,821,350 fixed-price-incentive modification to a previously awarded contract (N00024-16-C-2431) for the procurement of the detail design and construction of landing platform dock 29. Work will be performed...

Saturday, 17 February 2018 00:32

Contract: HII, $15M

Huntington Ingalls Inc., Pascagoula, Miss., is being awarded a $14,999,924 firm-fixed-price contract for Guided Missile Frigate (FFG(X)) conceptual design. Huntington Ingalls Inc. will be maturing their proposed ship design to meet the FFG(X) system specification. The conceptual...

Saturday, 10 February 2018 00:17

Contract: HII, $11.6M

Huntington Ingalls Inc., Pascagoula, Miss., is being awarded an $11,595,871 cost-plus-fixed-fee order against previously awarded basic ordering agreement (N00024-16-G-4305) to provide program management, advanced planning, engineering, design, scheduling, and participation in...

Tuesday, 06 February 2018 18:44

Aquaculture future topic of hearing

Dr. Kelly Lucas, director of The University of Southern Mississippi’s Thad Cochran Marine Aquaculture Center in Ocean Springs, spoke in Washington recently on the importance of aquaculture in the United States. “The United States imports over 90 percent of our seafood and...

Thursday, 01 February 2018 11:12

County economy touted

PASCAGOULA, Miss. – Jackson County’s economy is doing well and will only get better. That was the message from newly appointed Jackson County Board of Supervisors President Randy Bosarge at his State of the County address Wednesday. Among the highlights: the approval of funds...

Wednesday, 31 January 2018 17:35

Boost in workers will have impact

PASCAGOULA, Miss. -- Scheduled maintenance at the Chevron Pascagoula Refinery will bring thousands of contract workers to Jackson County, boosting the local economy. Maintenance is an ongoing process, said Alan Sudduth, manager of policy, government and public affairs at the...