Huntington Ingalls Industries will offer on-site family healthcare centers exclusively designed for its Pascagoula, Miss.-based Ingalls Shipbuilding and Virginia's Newport News Shipbuilding division employees and their families. The centers, scheduled to open in 2015,...

PASCAGOULA, Miss. -- Ingalls Shipbuilding has been awarded a $76.5 million fixed-price contract from the U.S. Coast Guard to purchase long-lead materials for the eighth National Security Cutter (NSG), Midgett (WMSL 757). Construction and delivery of Midgett would take...

MOSS POINT, Miss. – The new site for the Pascagoula River Audubon Center is a step closer to reality with the announcement Wednesday of construction of the new $1.6 million facility. The center will serve as a gateway to the Pascagoula River. The area is...

PASCAGOULA, Miss. -- The keel laying and authentication ceremony for the amphibious assault ship, the future USS Tripoli (LHA 7) was held at the Huntington Ingalls Industries Pascagoula shipyard Friday.  The ceremony traditionally marked the first step in ship...

PASCAGOULA, Miss. — Navy Secretary Ray Mabus and Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant will speak Friday at a keel authentication ceremony at Ingalls Shipbuilding for the amphibious assault ship Tripoli (LHA 7). LHA 7 will join LHA 6 as the first two ships in the new America...

GAUTIER, Miss. -- Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College trustees approved a $5 million building project to boost the Gautier campus' science, technology, engineering and mathematics programs. The project will add a new wing to an existing building. With industries...

SAN DIEGO -- Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Navy demonstrated a new multimode maritime surveillance radar on the MQ-8B Fire Scout unmanned helicopter that will drastically enhance long-range imaging and search capabilities for Navy commanders. Integrating this new...

For the second year in a row, the U.S. Air Force awarded the Dr. James G. Roche Sustainment Excellence Award for superior performance in aircraft maintenance and logistics readiness to the U.S. Air Force RQ-4 Global Hawk high altitude, long endurance unmanned aircraft...

PASCAGOULA, Miss. -- Jackson County supervisors gave the Port of Pascagoula permission to borrow up to $5 million for upgrades to a Bayou Casotte wharf that will aid Chevron in importing mixed xylenes. Port director Mark McAndrews said the wharf upgrades will help the...

South Mississippi’s VT Bollinger has delivered an ocean-going articulated tug barge (ATB) to Bouchard Transportation, a 96-year-old New York state total service oil barging company. The 80,000 barrel-holding Denise A. Bouchard tug will join the firm’s existing ATBs as...

PASCAGOULA, Miss. -- Brian Cuccias, newly installed president of Ingalls Shipbuilding, gave the keynote speech Thursday at the spring investors meeting of the Jackson County Economic Development Foundation. Cuccias, who has headed up Ingalls for two months,...

PENSACOLA, Fla. -- Two fast missile craft built in Mississippi for the Egyptian Navy were loaded onto a civilian transport ship in Pensacola Bay Sunday. The publication Defense News reports that the crafts' officers have been training at NAS Pensacola since July 2013....