PASCAGOULA, Miss. - Last year was highly successful for Jackson County, with over 2,000 industrial jobs created and new capital investments in excess of $220 million. That was a key message during the Jackson County State of the Economy Address during a breakfast...

PASCAGOULA, Miss. -- Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding division has awarded $99,592 in grants to 28 STEM-related initiatives from schools and educational organizations in Mississippi and Alabama. This is the program’s 12th year. Ingalls has...

GAUTIER, Miss. -- The first phase of the new Jackson County Animal Shelter project is complete and was marked with a ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday. The 5,000-square foot adoption and administration building cost $1.1 million and took over a year to build. The new...

Maritime aviation surveillance experts at Northrop Grumman Corp. will build three MQ-4C Triton long-range patrol unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) under terms of a $251.6 million order announced last month. Official of the Naval Air Systems Command at Patuxent River...

Huntington Ingalls Inc., Pascagoula, Miss., is awarded a $110,376,375 cost-plus award fee (CPAF) contract for CG-47 class integrated planning yard services. Contract N00024-20-C-4203 is for planning yard services for CG 47 class ships.  Huntington Ingalls Inc....

Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., San Diego, Calif., is awarded a $22,471,211 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to provide engineering, cyber security, system software, logistics and training services in support of the MQ-8 Fire Scout Unmanned Air Systems. Work will be...

Huntington Ingalls Industries, Pascagoula, Miss., is awarded an $8,336,050 cost-plus-fixed-fee modification to previously awarded contract N00024-17-C-2473 for accomplishment of planning, engineering, cost estimating and management efforts of planned availabilities as...

Enviva Biomass said Monday that it has received a permit from the Alabama Department of Environmental Management enabling the company to start construction on a new wood pellet plant at the Port of Epes Industrial Park in Epes, Ala. The plant will initially produce...

Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems, Moorestown, N.J., is awarded a $17,620,319 fixed-price-incentive (firm target), cost and cost-plus-fixed-fee modification to previously awarded contract N00024-14-C-5104 to exercise options for ship integration and test of...

PASCAGOULA, Miss. - Ground was broken on a new marine export terminal in the Port of Pascagoula’s Bayou Casotte Harbor. The ceremony marks the beginning of construction of the $90 million Enviva terminal. Wood pellets produced in George County, Miss., and other Enviva...

PASCAGOULA, Miss. -- Ingalls Shipbuilding authenticated the keel of the Jack H. Lucas (DDG 125), a guided missile destroyer named for World War II’s youngest Congressional Medal of Honor recipient. The yard officially started construction on the ship in May 2018, but...

PASCAGOULA, Miss. - The Navy completed acceptance trials for the America-class amphibious assault ship Tripoli (LHA 7) in the Gulf of Mexico. The future USS Tripoli was evaluated by the U.S. Navy’s Board of Inspection and Survey (INSURV) over three days. It involved a...