The Mississippi Legislature authorized $1 million in bond funding that will help re-establish continuous rail service from Corinth to Meridian and on to the ports of Pascagoula and Mobile. The funding for the Rail Authority of East Mississippi will assist in the...

PASCAGOULA, Miss. -- Huntington Ingalls Industries' Ingalls Shipbuilding division has received a $604.3 million contract modification to fund construction of the Arleigh Burke-class (DDG 51) Aegis guided missile destroyer DDG 121 for the U.S. Navy. The ship is the...

GULFPORT, Miss. -- A 135-foot research vessel that will study marine science issues reached its home port Sunday, becoming the University of Southern Mississippi's newest and largest research vessel. The Point Sur, a $1 million investment, reached the state Port of...

PASCAGOULA, Miss. -- Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc. received a nearly $500 million contract to build an eighth National Security Cutter (NSC-8) for the U.S. Coast Guard at its Ingalls Shipyard in Pascagoula. U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., chairman of the Senate...

PASCAGOULA, Miss. -- Huntington Ingalls Industries' Ingalls Shipbuilding division will christen the company's 10th amphibious transport dock, John P. Murtha (LPD 26), on Saturday, March 21. House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi will be the featured speaker at the...

A Fire Scout and a Littoral Combat Ship are both making a showing for the first time in an annual war game in South Korea. The "Key Resolve/Foal Eagle" exercises began March 2 and will continue through April 24. The exercises involve thousands of U.S. troops working...

The U.S. Air Force RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft system has seen a significant decrease in cost per flight hour coupled with a sharp increase in flight hours, officials said. The Global Hawk program has brought the system's cost per flight hour down to the point...

ESCATAWPA, Miss. -- VT Bollinger recently launched the Articulated Tug Barge (ATB) tug Kim M. Bouchard, the first of two ATB tugs under a major expansion program for Bouchard Transportation Co., Inc., Melville, N.Y. The launch was held at VT Bollinger's Moss Point...

Bell Helicopter Textron Inc., Hurst, Texas, is being awarded an $8,431,030 modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N00019-14-C-0022) to exercise an option for delivery of one Bell 407 Analog Helicopter, and preservation and storage of seven...

GAUTIER, Miss. -- A new medical center being built in Gautier could draw more development to an untapped interstate-adjacent corridors. Bienville Orthopaedic Specialists has broken ground on a 48,000-square-foot office complex just off Mississippi 57 and north of...

Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., San Diego, Calif., is being awarded a $63,700,156 advance acquisition contract for the procurement of long-lead components, material, parts and associated efforts required to maintain the MQ-4C Triton Unmanned Aircraft System planned...

PASCAGOULA, Miss. -- Huntington Ingalls Industries announced Thursday that its Ingalls Shipbuilding division was awarded the ProPatria award by the Employer Support of the National Guard and Reserve (ESGR). The ProPatria award is the highest level award that may be...