PASCAGOULA, Miss. -- Ingalls Shipbuilding has officially started fabrication on the U.S. Coast Guard's seventh National Security Cutter, Kimball (WMSL 756). Designed to replace the 378-foot Hamilton-class High-Endurance Cutters, Ingalls has delivered the first four...
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Ingalls gives $102K in STEM grants
PASCAGOULA, Miss. -- Huntington Ingalls Industries announced Friday that its Ingalls Shipbuilding division has awarded more than $102,000 in grants for 28 projects at schools and educational organizations in Mississippi and Alabama. The grants, which were requested by...
Global Hawks set records
Northrop Grumman Global Hawks unmanned systrems in all its variants have flown more intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance mission hours in one week than ever before. Global Hawks flew 781 hours from Sept. 10-16. The Air Force's RQ-4 Global Hawk flew 87 percent...
Larger Fire Scout gets sea legs
NORFOLK, Va. -- The U.S. Navy and Northrop Grumman successfully flew the MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned helicopter for the first time off the guided-missile destroyer USS Jason Dunham (DDG 109) last week off the Virginia coast. After more than a year of land-based testing...
Ingalls, Signet get tax breaks
PASCAGOULA, Miss. -- Pascagoula leaders this week granted two 10-year ad valorem tax exemptions to Ingalls Shipbuilding and Signet Maritime Corp. for new machinery and equipment. The property receiving the exemption has a true value of some $19.2 million. The bulk of...
Contract: Raytheon, $26M
Raytheon Co. Integrated Defense Systems, San Diego, Calif., is being awarded a $26,050,551 cost-plus-fixed fee contract for life cycle engineering and support services for LPD 17 class integrated shipboard electronic systems. This contract includes options which, if...
Bill provides $1B for LPD
As many as 3,000 state jobs and $1 billion for an amphibious warship have been secured in a $1 trillion spending bill passed late Saturday. The ship will be built at the Ingalls Shipyard in Pascagoula. The House had allotted $800 million for construction of the 12th...
Contract: Bath Iron Works, $21.1M
Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, is being awarded a $21,192,127 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-12-C-2313) to exercise options for DDG 51-class lead yard services. This work will provide class engineering and design services including technical...
Fire Scout work intensifies
WASHINGTON – A new level of activity is taking place with the Navy's Fire Scout unmanned helicopter, according to Defense News. For the first time, Fire Scouts will be at sea on four ships at the same time. Two East Coast-based frigates are deployed, each with four...
Ingalls, unions extend contract
PASCAGOULA, Miss. -- Ingalls Shipbuilding's union workers agreed Monday to accept a three-year extension to their contract, taking the current agreement to March 2018. The agreement includes incremental raises and a bonus. The proposal was agreed upon by the company...
Contract: Lockheed, $54.6M
Lockheed Martin Corp., Mission Systems and Training, Moorestown, N.J., is being awarded a $54,632,457 modification to a previously awarded contract (N00024-14-C-5104) to exercise option year one for ship integration and test of the Aegis weapon system (AWS) for AWS...
Navy marks first with Fire Scout
When the Littoral Combat Ship USS Fort Worth (LCS 3) departs next week for a lengthy deployment to the Western Pacific, it will be the first deployment of the Navy's manned MH-60R Seahawk helicopter with the unmanned MQ-8B Fire Scout helicopter....