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Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS), a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries, is the sole designer, builder, and refueler of aircraft carriers and one of two providers of submarines for the United States Navy. Founded as the Chesapeake Dry Dock and Construction Co. in 1886, Newport News Shipbuilding has built more than 800 ships, including both ...
Predecessors of Huntington Ingalls Industries The former Huntington Ingalls Industries logo. When it spun off as a new company on 31 March 2011, Huntington Ingalls Industries comprised Northrop Grumman’s shipbuilding businesses in Newport News, Virginia, Pascagoula, Mississippi, and Avondale, Louisiana; Avondale was closed in 2014.
The tankers were built in 1979 at Newport News Shipbuilding's shipyard in Newport News, Virginia. Each vessel cost approximately 136.4 million USD. [3] In June 2004, the Marine Atlantic—ex U.S.T. Atlantic—was sold to Indian breakers. After clearing Indian customs, she was intentionally beached in India for ship breaking. [4]
Members of the largest union at Newport News Shipbuilding, United Steelworkers Local 8888, overwhelmingly approved a new five-year labor contract. The vote was 3,678 to 533. Under the new contract ...
Members of the largest union at Newport News Shipbuilding are considering a contract offer that provides for bigger initial across-the-board wage increases, but that keeps the overall increase ...
Lower performance at Newport News Shipbuilding and Ingalls Shipbuilding, offset by growth of Mission Technologies, contributed to the company’s 2.4% third-quarter revenue drop from last year to ...
Newport News Shipbuilding: Identification: CVN-83: Status: Planned: General characteristics; Class and type: Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier: Displacement: About 100,000 long tons (100,000 tonnes) (full load) [4] Length: 1,106 ft (337 m) Beam: 134 ft (41 m) Draft: 39 ft (12 m) Installed power: Two A1B nuclear reactors: Propulsion: Four ...
USS California (SSN-781), is the eighth Virginia-class submarine, and the seventh United States Navy ship named for the state of California.The contract to build her was awarded to Newport News Shipbuilding (then called Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co.) in Newport News, Virginia, on 14 August 2003.