MOSS POINT, Miss. -- Local businesses and non-profits were honored during the 8th annual Anchor Awards presented Aug. 10 at Pelican Landing Conference Center. The Anchor Awards of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce honor outstanding small businesses and...

PASCAGOULA, Miss. – The John P. Murtha (LPD 26) will sail away from the Ingalls shipyard at 9 a.m. Thursday to head for its Oct. 8 commissioning in Philadelphia. Its homeport will be San Diego. Murtha is the 10th San Antonio–class amphibious transport dock to be built...

PASCAGOULA, Miss. -- Huntington Ingalls Industries announced today the successful completion of builder’s sea trials for the company’s sixth U.S. Coast Guard National Security Cutter, Munro (WMSL 755). The ship, built at HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division, spent...

PASCAGOULA, Miss. - Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Ingalls Shipbuilding division hosted a ceremony Saturday for 51 graduates of its decades-old apprentice program. The class of 2016 represents several classes of shipyard trades. Since 1952, Ingalls’ apprentice school...

Huntington Ingalls Inc., Pascagoula, Miss., is being awarded a cost-plus-award-fee $30,390,839 modification to previously awarded contract N00024-12-C-2312 for DDG 51 Class Flight III upgrade design efforts. The main goal of the Flight III upgrade is to replace the...

Huntington Ingalls Inc., Pascagoula, Miss., is being awarded a $102,123,183 modification to a previously awarded contract (N00024-12-C-4323) for option exercise for CG 47-class cruisers and DD 963-class destroyers integrated planning yard services. Ingalls will...

PASCAGOULA, Miss. -- The City Council on Tuesday voted to set up a "leisure district" that would allow patrons to take drinks to go. The leisure district would run along Pascagoula from Convent Avenue to U.S. 90 and west to the river. It would also dip south to Dupont...

PASCAGOULA, Miss. -- Huntington Ingalls Industries' Ingalls Shipbuilding division has installed the deckhouse on the amphibious assault ship Tripoli (LHA 7). Lifting the deckhouse is a major event in the ship's construction and begins the integration of the three...

The Air Force recently selected the first 10 enlisted Airmen to attend RQ-4 Global Hawk pilot training, marking the first time since World War II enlisted Airmen will be behind the stick. The first combined enlisted and officer training course will begin October 2016,...

The Supervisor of Shipbuilding, Conversion and Repair, Gulf Coast, Pascagoula, Miss., is the contracting activity for an $11,239,032 modification awarded to Austal USA, Mobile, Ala. The modification is against the previously awarded basic ordering agreement...

Navy Secretary Ray Mabus announced that a new Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer will be named for a trailblazing Navy nurse and the first woman awarded the Navy Cross. Mabus said the future DDG-123 will be named for Lenah H. Sutcliffe Higbee. She...

OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. -- Mayor Connie Moran and the Board of Aldermen intend to create an official "Entertainment and Art District" that will allow businesses within the district to take advantage of a new state law relative to alcohol consumption. House Bill 1223,...