PASCAGOULA, Miss. -- Signet Maritime Corp. is investing $7.2 million in infrastructure improvements at its Pascagoula shipyard, Signet Shipbuilding & Repair. The work will support an increased workload and future growth, the company said, and includes a 150-ton...
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Triton completes nine test flights
Northrop Grumman and the Navy completed nine initial flight tests of the Triton unmanned aircraft system, the half-way point in a process called envelope expansion. During envelope expansion, the test team validates the aircraft's ability to operate at a range of...
Spotlight: Anchor Square
PASCAGOULA, Miss. -- Anchor Square is designed to help entrepreneurs open a business in Pascagoula and spur economic development in the downtown area and community. Opened in August 2011, it's owned by the city of Pascagoula. A business profile by the Jackson County...
HII buys Stoller
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. -- Huntington Ingalls Industries has acquired S.M. Stoller Corp., a provider of environmental, nuclear and technical consulting and engineering services. The value of the transaction was not released. Stoller has provided environmental...
Contract: BAE, $48.9M
BAE Systems Technology Solutions and Services, Rockville, Md., is being awarded a $48,860,666 cost-plus-fixed-fee, cost reimbursable contract for services in support of the Program Executive Office for Ships, Naval Sea Systems Command, PEO C41, and the Naval Air...
Money for pellet export facility OKd
PASCAGOULA, Miss. -- Jackson County supervisors Monday authorized borrowing up to $24 million for the Port of Pascagoula to build a specialized wood pellet exporting facility on Bayou Casotte. Florida-based Green Circle Bio Energy Inc., which plans to build a $115...
Edenzon retiring next year
Irwin F. Edenzon, corporate vice president and president of Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Miss., will retire on Dec. 1, 2014, according to Huntington Ingalls Industries. Edenzon will step down as president on March 31, 2014. The HII Board of Directors has...
Academy addition awarded
PASCAGOULA, Miss. -- Jackson County supervisors Monday hired a grant administrator, engineer and architect for a basic skills training annex addition on Ingalls Shipbuilding's Haley Reeves Barbour Maritime Training Academy. A $1.3 million Hurricane Katrina community...
Contract: Ingalls, $39M
Huntington Ingalls Industries, Pascagoula, Miss., is being awarded a $39,051,995 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-10-C-2203) for life cycle engineering and support services on the Amphibious Transport Dock Ship Program LPD 17 class. Services to be...
Water treatment plant to be built
PASCAGOULA, Miss. -- Jackson County will move immediately into construction of a $9.2 million drinking water plant that’s part of a project to use water from the Pascagoula River to supply businesses and homes in northeast Jackson County. The county partnered with the...
NATO Global Hawk build starts
MOSS POINT, Miss. -- Northrop Grumman Unmanned Systems Center started production on the first NATO Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS) Block 40 Global Hawk. NATO representatives, state dignitaries, community leaders and employees celebrated the start of production for...
Contract: Northrop, $13.9M
Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Aerospace Systems, San Diego, Calif., is being awarded a $13,857,607 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for logistics services in support of the MQ-8B/C Fire Scout unmanned air vehicle. This work will be performed in Patuxent River, Md., and...