PASCAGOULA, Miss. -- Huntington Ingalls Industries' Ingalls Shipbuilding division has received a $618 million contract modification to fund construction of the Arleigh Burke-class (DDG 51) guided missile destroyer DDG 123 for the U.S. Navy. The ship is the fourth...
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Contract: Boeing, $13.4M
The Boeing Co., Huntington Beach, Calif., is being awarded $13,381,495 to exercise a cost-plus-incentive-fee option to a previously awarded contract (N00178-15-C-2016) to continue to provide design agent and technical engineering services in support of the...
LPD 26 completes builders trials
PASCAGOULA, Miss. -- The future amphibious transport dock John P. Murtha (LPD 26) successfully completed builder’s trials earlier this month. It’s the 10th San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock built by Huntington Ingalls Industries shipyard, Ingalls...
Keel ceremony set for Friday
PASCAGOULA, Miss. – Ingalls Shipbuilding will hold a keel authentication ceremony of the National Security Cutter Kimball (WMSL 756) Friday, March 4, at 10:30 a.m. The ship is the company’s seventh NSC for the U.S. Coast Guard. Adm. Paul Zukunft, commandant of the...
Contract: Northrop, $7.3M
Northrop Grumman Corp., Aerospace Systems, San Diego, Calif., is being awarded $7,280,560 for cost-plus-fixed-fee task order 1269 against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N00019-15-G-0026) in support of the MQ-8 Fire Scout unmanned aircraft systems. This...
Ship named for long-time researcher
OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. -- Jim Franks, longtime fisheries biologists and marine conservationist, has a research boat named after him. The 60-foot, $2 million R/V Jim Franks is the newest research vessel in the University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast Research...
Students get national recognition
OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. -- Three Ocean Springs High School students have been named candidates for the United States Presidential Scholars program. Sally Boswell, Jessica Leonard, and Sunna Savani were selected by the White House Commission on Presidential Scholars and...
AGJ expands to Moss Point
GULFPORT, Miss. -- AGJ Systems & Networks has opened a second office in Jackson County’s Moss Point. The company specializes in computer IT support, data security and managed services in South Mississippi. CEO Ryan Giles said that while the company can remotely...
Sicily to get drones by year’s end
NATO will send all five of its Global Hawks this year to Sigonella Air Base in Sicily, four years later than program managers had initially planned. The drones are part of the Alliance Ground Surveillance system NATO is setting up in Italy amid growing regional and...
Ocean Springs home of unique program
OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. -- Ocean Springs High is home to the state's only aquaculture program, where students study the breeding, growing and harvesting of plants and animals in water environments. The program, in its second year, will eventually be a three-year program....
I-10 improvements planned
When Interstate 10 was built through Jackson County, it was a much needed four-lane thoroughfare. But the traffic has increased over the years, and improvements are in the works. The current plan is to widen the section between exits 50 and 57 from four lanes to six....
Ingalls donates to schools
PASCAGOULA, Miss. -- Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Ingalls Shipbuilding division has awarded nearly $100,000 in grants to 25 projects from schools and educational organizations in Mississippi and Alabama. The grants, which were requested by the organizations, will be...