POINT MUGU, Calif. – Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Navy demonstrated endurance capabilities with the MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned helicopter. On a planned 10-plus hour flight and range out to 150 nautical miles flight from Naval Base Ventura County, Point Mugu, the MQ-8C...

PASCAGOULA, Miss. -- Huntington Ingalls Industries held a ceremony Saturday for graduates of Ingalls Shipbuilding's Apprentice School. The ceremony celebrated the accomplishments of 45 students representing various crafts at Ingalls. Since 1952, the Apprentice School...

OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. -- The Ocean Springs School District wants to build future engineers and scientists at a very young age. This year, Ocean Springs students as young as five will be exposed to engineering and robotics at the kindergarten level. For years, the...

PASCAGOULA, Miss. -- Gov. Phil Bryant spent the day before Election Day in South Mississippi breaking ground on a $7.5 million blast and paint facility that will bring another 40 jobs to the VT Bollinger's Pascagoula shipyard. Bryant kicked in $2 million in...

Huntington Ingalls Inc., Pascagoula, Miss., is being awarded a $16,614,562 cost-plus-award-fee modification to previously awarded contract N00024-12-C-4323 to provide long lead-time material procurement, management services, and incremental level of effort for...

Huntington Ingalls Inc., Pascagoula, Miss., is being awarded a $93,034,622 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-12-C-4323) to provide incremental level of effort, long lead-time material procurement, and management services for CG-47-class cruisers....

PASCAGOULA, Miss. – Huntington Ingalls Industries gave its first tour of its Shipyard of the Future to editors Wednesday. The initiative includes a new dry dock, better-trained employees, easier access to work space and more covered areas to keep workers out...

Manufacturing is still king in Mississippi, and in few places is it more apparent than in Jackson County, which is in the top echelon for job growth in the manufacturing sector. Headlight Data recently reported its county-by-county rankings for manufacturing job...

PASCAGOULA, Miss. -- Fairbanks Morse has delivered twin fixed-pitch propellers to Bath Iron Works in Maine for installation on the future USS Zumwalt, first ship of the DDG 1000 destroyer class. The provision of the twin fixed-pitch propellers marks the completion of...

PASCAGOULA, Miss. -- Ingalls Shipbuilding has marked the start of fabrication for the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer Delbert D. Black (DDG 119). The start of fabrication signifies that 100 tons of steel have been cut. The ship is named in honor of...

OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. — The University of Southern Mississippi's Gulf Coast Research Laboratory unveiled plans for a new $17 million marine education center. The center will be built on Cedar Point land the university bought in Ocean Springs several years ago. It...

Ocean Springs High School was honored by the Mississippi Board of Education during its July meeting for achieving the top growth in the nation on Advanced Placement (AP) exams. Ocean Springs High School expanded student access to AP courses through its...