PASCAGOULA, Miss. -- Gov. Phil Bryant visited Huntington Ingalls Industries Ingalls Shipbuilding division Thursday to participate in a ceremonial signing of a $20 million bond bill supporting Ingalls' "Shipyard of the Future" project. The investment will go toward...
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Wicker visits Ingalls
PASCAGOULA, Miss. – Huntington Ingalls Industries hosted Sen. Roger Wicker on Tuesday for a tour of the company's Ingalls Shipbuilding division. Wicker visited various areas of Mississippi's largest private employer, including the amphibious transport dock John P....
Contract: Ingalls, $14.5M
Huntington Ingalls Inc., Pascagoula, Miss., is being awarded a $14,524,779 cost-plus-award-fee modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-12-C-2312) to exercise options for DDG 51 class destroyer follow yard services (FYS). The FYS provides liaison; technical...
Ingalls picks two VPs
PASCAGOULA, Miss. -- Huntington Ingalls Industries announced today the appointment of two vice presidents at its Ingalls Shipbuilding division. George Jones has been appointed vice president of operations, and Tim Farrell has been appointed vice president of new Navy...
Cutter completes acceptance trials
PASCAGOULA, Miss. – Ingalls Shipbuilding’s fifth U.S. Coast Guard National Security Cutter (NSC), James (WMSL 754), has successfully completed acceptance trials. The Ingalls-built NSC spent two full days in the Gulf of Mexico proving the ship's systems. Ingalls has...
DDG 113 to be christened
PASCAGOULA, Miss. -- The Navy will christen the newest guided missile destroyer, the future USS John Finn (DDG 113), May 2 during a 10 a.m. CDT ceremony at Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula. It's the 63rd Arleigh Burke class destroyer. The new destroyer honors Lt....
Key radar tests begin on Triton
The Navy has launched flight tests on the Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton of one of the first active electronically scanned array (AESA) radars with 360-degree coverage developed exclusively for the maritime patrol mission. The multifunction active sensor (MFAS)...
Contract: Austal, $11M
Austal USA, Mobile, Ala., is being awarded an $11,038,412 cost-plus-award-fee order against the previously awarded basic ordering agreement (N00024-15-G-2304) to provide engineering and management services for advance planning and design in support of the post...
Larger Fire Scout a great fit
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. -- The larger version of the MQ-8 Fire Scout unmanned helicopter has completed 297 test sorties and is scheduled to begin initial operational testing and evaluation in 2016, the Navy program manager said. The Northrop Grumman MQ-8C Fire Scout is...
NSC has successful trials
PASCAGOULA, Miss. -- Huntington Ingalls Industries announced the successful completion of builder's sea trials for the company's fifth U.S. Coast Guard National Security Cutter, James (WMSL 754). The ship, built at HII's Ingalls Shipbuilding, spent three days in the...
Contract: HII, $12.3M
Huntington Ingalls Inc., Pascagoula, Miss., is being awarded a $12,299,265 modification to previously awarded contract N00024-14-C-2410 for additional LX(R) Amphibious Ship Replacement Program early industry involvement for preliminary design efforts. The LX(R)...
CNO visits Ingalls
PASCAGOULA, Miss. -- Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan Greenert and U.S. Rep. Steven Palazzo of Mississippi toured Ingalls Shipyard Thursday to see progress on a new class of Aegis destroyers and amphibious assault vehicles. Ingalls is working on three major...