SAN DIEGO – The Department of Defense awarded Northrop Grumman a $306 million contract to continue logistics and sustainment services on the RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft system, an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft. This contract comes on...
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MSU to offer engineering at MGCCC
GAUTIER, Miss. -- Representatives of Mississippi State on Thursday spoke at the auditorium at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College about the four-year engineering degrees the university will offer through MGCCC starting next fall. Jason Keith,...
HII profits up
Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc., which owns Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, reported $96 million in third-quarter profits, up nearly 40 percent from $69 million in the same period of 2013. The Newport News, Va.-based defense giant's earnings per share for the...
Keel ceremony; NSC departure
PASCAGOULA, Miss. -- Ingalls Shipbuilding division on Wednesday authenticated the keel of the sixth U.S. Coast Guard National Security Cutter, Munro (WMSL 755). The ship honors Coast Guard Signalman First Class Douglas A. Munro, who died in 1942 on Guadalcanal after...
Ingalls launches LPD-26
PASCAGOULA, Miss. – The Ingalls Shipbuilding division of Huntington Ingalls Industries launched the company’s 10th amphibious transport dock, John P. Murtha (LPD 26). LPD 26 was moved on rail cars from land to the company’s floating drydock on Oct. 19. Work took place...
National Seashore has $39M impact
OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. -- Coastal leaders toured natural resource sites across Jackson County early Tuesday morning to observe how to grow the nature tourism industry. A National Park Service report showed 944,004 visitors toured the Mississippi portion of the park in...
Two HII women honored
Two Huntington Ingalls Industries employees were honored last week at the Society of Women Engineers' annual conference in Los Angeles. Alma Martinez Fallon, from HII's Newport News, Va., Shipbuilding division, and Dianna Genton, from the Ingalls Shipbuilding division...
MQ-8C set for at-sea testing
The MQ-8C Fire Scout, a larger, more capable version of the heavily tested MQ-8B unmanned helicopter, is preparing for at-sea testing after successfully completing flight testing and validation in California. The tests performed by the MQ-8C, based on a Bell...
Work begins on Crowley ships
PASCAGOULA, Miss. -- VT Bollinger's Pascagoula shipyard has begun construction on the first of two liquefied natural gas-powered roll-on/roll-off container vessels for Crowley Maritime Corp. VT Halter announced the $350 million contract last November. Beginning of...
Second Navy Triton flies
The second MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft, a maritime version of the Northrop Grumman Global Hawk, has now been flown by the Navy. This aircraft enters testing 17 months after first flight of the original prototype, and a month after the first aircraft completed a...
Navy to commission LHA 6
The Navy will commission its newest amphibious assault ship, USS America (LHA 6), during a 1 p.m. EDT ceremony Oct. 11 in San Francisco, Calif. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus will deliver the ceremony's principal address. Mrs. Lynne Pace, wife of retired U.S. Marine...
Work begins on new destroyer
PASCAGOULA, Miss. -- Ingalls Shipbuilding on Tuesday marked the start of fabrication for the future Aegis-guided missile destroyer Paul Ignatius (DDG 117). Paul Ignatius, the ship's namesake, and his wife, Nancy Ignatius, the ship's sponsor, visited the shipyard to...