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Huntington Ingalls wins $213.9M Navy contract

The U.S. Navy awarded Newport News-based Huntington Ingalls Industries a $213.9 million follow-on contract to perform engineering services for San Antonio-class amphibious transport docks, the U.S. Department of Defense announced Friday.

Under the contract, HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division in Pascagoula, Mississippi, will help the Navy manage engineering changes, integrate systems and provide shipboard technology training.

The San Antonio class can accommodate up to 800 personnel for amphibious assault for special operations purposes.

HII is the nation’s largest military shipbuilding company, employing more than 42,000 people worldwide. The DOD also announced last week the company landed a $2.99 billion Navy contract to refuel and overhaul USS John C. Stennis supercarrier.

 

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Newport News Shipbuilding lays off 314 employees

Newport News Shipbuilding has laid off 314 salaried employees and demoted 119 managers in its first workforce reduction since the shipyard laid off 1,218 employees in 2015, according to a letter sent to employees by the company’s president, Jennifer Boykin.

“Today is a tough day as we say goodbye to 314 fellow shipbuilders as part of a layoff impacting our salaried workforce,” Boykin wrote. “This is the first workforce reduction we’ve experienced in five years and comes after a thorough assessment of our business. This decision, along with the demotion of an additional 119 managers, more evenly distributes management spans and reshapes production and support ratios. All impacted employees have been notified.”

She added that the shipbuilding company, the largest industrial employer in the state with more than 25,000 employees, is continuing to hire for some positions. “While these are very difficult decisions, they are necessary cost controls to help ensure the future of our shipyard and the affordability of the ships we build.”

A subsidiary of Huntington Ingalls Industries, Newport News Shipbuilding is the largest military shipbuilding company in the country. It is building nine Virginia-class Block V attack submarines with General Dynamics Electric Boat as part of a $22.2 billion contract awarded in December 2019. Employees laid off will receive severance and benefits, as well as transition assistance, according to Boykin’s letter.

 

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Huntington Ingalls promotes three VPs

Newport News-based Huntington Ingalls Industries announced Wednesday three promotions in its technical solutions division.

Grant Hagen has been promoted as vice president of business operations; Jaime Orlando has been promoted as vice president of communications; and Chris Walton has been promoted as vice president of information technology. They will all assume their positions March 1 and report to Andy Green, HII executive vice president and president of HII’s technical solutions division.

Hagen currently serves as senior director of business excellence. Orlando is the current senior director of communications. Walton serves as senior director of information technology and chief information officer.

HII is the nation’s largest military shipbuilding company, employing more than 42,000 people worldwide. Earlier this month, the company announced it had won a $2.99 billion U.S. Navy contract to refuel and overhaul USS John C. Stennis supercarrier.

Grant Hagen
Jaime O’Keefe Orlando
Chris Walton

Photos courtesy HII.

 

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HII lands $2.99B Navy contract

The U.S. Navy awarded Newport News-based Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (HII) Newport News Shipbuilding division a $2.99 billion contract to refuel and overhaul USS John C. Stennis supercarrier, the Department of Defense announced Friday.

Under the contract, Newport News Shipbuilding will perform work for the second half of the estimated five-decade service life of the aircraft carrier. The Stennis was built at Newport News Shipbuilding, christened in 1993 and delivered to the Navy in 1995.

“Our teams have spent three years preparing and planning for each step of the process along the way, and we look forward to continuing our work with our suppliers and Navy partners in anticipation of the ship’s arrival at Newport News,” Todd West, Newport News Shipbuilding’s vice president, in-service aircraft carrier programs, said in a statement.

The refueling and complex overhaul (RCOH) is about 35% of all maintenance and modernization in the aircraft carrier’s service life. Work will include refueling the ship’s reactors and work on more than 2,300 components and hundreds of tanks and systems.

HII is the nation’s largest military shipbuilding company, employing more than 42,000 people worldwide.

 

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Navy awards HII $175M contact

The U.S. Navy awarded Newport News-based Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) a $174.9 million contract to maintain and repair elevator support units aboard the branch’s nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, the Department of Defense announced Friday.

HII will perform work on units stationed across the United States and other deployed locations, according to the DOD. Work is expected to be completed by January 2026. 

Navy CVNs (aircraft carrier nuclear propulsion) united are used to perform maritime security missions and support air vehicles. 

HII is the nation’s largest military shipbuilding company, employing more than 42,000 people worldwide.

 

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Huntington Ingalls biz names nuclear operations VP

Newport News-based Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) announced Wednesday it has hired retired U.S. Navy Vice Adm. Thomas Moore as vice president of nuclear operations for its Nuclear and Environmental Services business group.

Moore served 39 years in the U.S. Navy, retiring in August 2020 as the commander of Naval Sea Systems Command, where he managed more than 83,000 people and an annual budget of more than $50 billion. 

In his new role, he will oversee all nuclear operations for the business group’s Department of Energy portfolio. He will report directly to Michael Lempke, president of HII’s Nuclear and Environmental Services business group.

“Tom is an incredibly talented leader with nearly four decades of exemplary service to our nation,” Lempke said in a statement. “I am proud to have him on our senior leadership team and look forward to working together in supporting the mission of the DOE.”

Moore earned his bachelor’s degree in operations analysis from the U.S. Naval Academy, his master’s degree in information systems management from The George Washington University and another master’s degree in nuclear engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

HII is the nation’s largest military shipbuilding company, employing more than 42,000 people worldwide.

 

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HII acquires unmanned systems business

Newport News-based Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) announced Monday it has acquired Virginia Beach-based Spatial Integrated Systems Inc.’s (SIS) autonomy business.

Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed, but the acquisition expands HII’s unmanned systems capabilities, according to a company statement. Approximately 50 SIS employees will join unmanned systems business group in HII’s Technical Solutions division.

“2020 was a significant year for HII in the unmanned systems industry, and this acquisition is the perfect complement to our existing portfolio and strategic partnerships,” Andy Green, HII executive vice president and technical solutions president, said in a statement.

SIS has worked on developing air-, land- and sea-based unmanned systems solutions for the Department of Defense.

SIS President and Chief Operating Officer Sam Lewis will lead the company’s unmanned service vehicles efforts.

HII is the nation’s largest military shipbuilding company, employing more than 42,000 people worldwide.

 

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Northrop Grumman CEO Kathy Warden to chair Aerospace Industries Association board

The Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) announced Tuesday it has named Northrop Grumman Chairman, President and CEO Kathy Warden to serve as the chair of the AIA’s board of governors for 2021. Mike Petters, president and CEO of Newport News-based Huntington Ingalls Industries, will serve as vice chairman.

Since 1919, the AIA has served as the voice for the aerospace industry and currently has more than 300 member companies. 

“I’m honored to take on this role on behalf of AIA’s members,” Warden said in a statement. “The aerospace and defense industry remains dedicated to our customers during these unprecedented times, and we will continue to be a driver for the global economy — strengthening our industry’s current and future workforce, sustaining the supply chain and investing in technology and innovation.”

Based in Falls Church, Northrop Grumman is a Fortune 500 Northrop Grumman is an aerospace and defense contractor that employs more than 90,000 people. The company reported $33.8 billion in 2019 revenue.

The AIA’s board of governors meets twice a year, and the organization’s executive board meets more frequently. Other members of the executive committee from Virginia include:

  • Tom Arseneault, president and CEO, BAE Systems, Arlington
  • Thomas Bell, president and CEO Rolls-Royce North America, Reston
  • Roger Krone, chairman and CEO, Leidos Corp., Reston
  • Phebe Novakovic, chairman and CEO, General Dynamics Corp., Reston

 

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Newport News Shipbuilding lands $2.2B sub contract modification

Newport News-based Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII)’s Newport News Shipbuilding division received a $2.2 billion contract modification from Reston-based General Dynamics Electric Boat for construction of the first two Columbia-class ballistic missile submarines, the company announced on Monday.

The U.S. Navy in early November awarded Electric Boat a $9.474 billion contract modification to build and test the first two Columbia-class intercontinental ballistic missile submarines — the largest ever built by the United States — and provide related design and engineering services.

Under the contract modification, Newport News Shipbuilding will deliver completed modules to Electric Boat for final assembly. Delivery is expected to start in November 2022, with the last one scheduled to take place by January 2028.

“We are pleased to be a crucial design and manufacturing contributor to the Columbia-class program,” Charles Southall, Newport News Shipbuilding’s vice president of Columbia-class submarine construction, said in a statement. “This contract continues NNS’ longstanding and strong commitment to the Navy’s undersea enterprise through the design and construction of major modules and assemblies necessary to achieve program objectives.”

Newport News shipbuilding has been working on the Columbia-class program since May 2019 when it began advance construction activities under Electric Boat. The Columbia class will replace the Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine class. 

The 560-foot-long, 21,000-ton submarines are expected to be delivered to the Navy in 2027.

 

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HII lands $284.2M in contract modifications on USS JFK

The U.S. Navy awarded Newport News-based Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) $284.2 million in contract modifications to deliver the Ford-class aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) to the branch, the U.S. Department of Defense announced Monday.

The delivery will be done in one phase. The Navy decided to change the two-phase delivery approach that was originally planned to comply with a fiscal 2020 National Defense Authorization Act provision that ensures ships can deploy the F-35 aircraft before efforts are made to correct any deficiencies identified during the ship’s performance testing, according to the DOD.

“We are pleased to have worked with the Navy to adopt lessons learned in the construction of USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) to improve cost, production and planning efficiencies on Kennedy,” Lucas Hicks, Newport News’ vice president of new construction aircraft carrier programs, said in a statement. “We believe that the single-phase approach ensures the most effective build plan for all remaining work and provides the best value for the Navy by supporting its ability to accelerate operational deployment of this maritime force asset.”

Kennedy is approximately 76% complete, according to HII. The ship launched in December 2019 and is undergoing additional outfitting and testing at HII’s shipbuilding division. It is scheduled to be delivered in 2024. The Navy will obligate $14 million at the time of award, according to the DOD.

HII is the nation’s largest military shipbuilding company and employs more than 42,000 people domestically and internationally.

 

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