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Subs going Down Under
A 2021 agreement between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States should reap benefits in Hampton Roads soon. Dubbed AUKUS for the three participating nations, the international agreement calls for the U.S. and the U.K. to share nuclear propulsion technology with Australia, with the Royal Australian Navy set to acquire at least eight nuclear-powered […]
Australian maritime co. to start sub/shipbuilding school in Hampton Roads
An Australian maritime company announced Tuesday it will set up a submarine and shipbuilding training institution in Norfolk for the short term and will seek a permanent home in Newport News. Quality Maritime Surveyors (QMS), based in the suburbs of Adelaide, Australia, is one of the pioneering companies to take the plunge into Virginia’s waters, […]
Breeden Construction completes Newport News apts.
Richmond-based Breeden Construction has finished work on the Lift & Rise on Jefferson, a community with 81 townhomes and garden-style apartments in Newport News. The $18.5 million project, done for the Newport News Redevelopment & Housing Authority and Pennrose, a Philadelphia-based developer, started in June 2021 with cleanup and preparation of land on Jefferson Avenue […]
HII names two legislative affairs execs
Newport News-based Huntington Ingalls Industries has promoted Peter Courtney to corporate vice president of legislative affairs and hired Betsy Bina Benedict as director of legislative affairs. Courtney was previously HII’s director of legislative affairs and takes the place of Carolyn Apostolou, who retired in December 2023. He will work from the Arlington County office and […]
Ferguson acquires 3 companies
U.K. plumbing and heating products distributor Ferguson plc has agreed to acquire two North American companies and closed on a third acquisition, the company announced Tuesday. Ferguson plc is the parent company of Newport News-based plumbing, HVAC and industrial product distributor Ferguson Enterprises. Ferguson has agreed to acquire Toronto-based Yorkwest Plumbing Supply, a distributor of [&hell[...]
NNS funding helps launch ODU engineering program
Newport News Shipbuilding will be the lead industry sponsor of Old Dominion University’s program to graduate more engineers, the two organizations announced Tuesday. NNS, a division of Newport News-based Fortune 500 military shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries, will make a five-year financial commitment to the Monarch Accelerator Program to Engineering (MAP-to-E), ODU’s program to increa[...]
Jefferson Lab to lead $300M data hub
The Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility will lead a $300 million to $500 million data science computing hub that will make scientific data more accessible to sciences nationwide, the U.S. Department of Energy announced Monday. Known as the High Performance Data Facility hub (HPDF), the project will be based at the Newport News-based lab in […]
HII, General Dynamics sued by marine engineers
A group of naval engineers filed a federal class action lawsuit on Oct. 6 against 20 large government contractors and shipbuilders, including Virginia-based General Dynamics and Huntington Ingalls Industries, claiming that the corporations have for decades “maintained an illegal agreement not to actively recruit, or ‘poach,’ each other’s employees,” thus depriving nav[...]
Va. construction exec announces retirement
Bill Goggins, senior vice president and Virginia division manager of Raleigh, North Carolina-based Clancy & Theys Construction, will retire at the end of the year, the company announced Tuesday. Based out of the company’s Virginia office in Newport News, Goggins has been with Clancy & Theys for nearly 30 years. Chad Cowger, vice president and […]
Newport News Shipbuilding names trades VP
Newport News Shipbuilding has promoted a third-generation shipbuilder to vice president of trades. David Horne has served since 2022 as senior director of trades. His promotion comes following a split of the shipbuilder’s human resources and administration department and trades department into two standalone groups. Xavier Beale, who held both roles, will continue as vice […]
Space race
Leaders of a regional engineering firm figured finding office space in the Town Center of Virginia Beach would be a breeze. Newspapers were reporting that demand for offices was down nationally. But that isn’t the case in the Hampton Roads area, where the office vacancy rate was 8.1% for the first quarter of 2023, according […]
Hydrogen catches big air in Newport News
Already home to a nascent 176-turbine wind farm off the coast of Virginia Beach, Hampton Roads is expanding its foray into the clean energy industry with the creation of a green hydrogen production facility at Newport News’ Tech Center Research Park. Last spring, the Blacksburg-based Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center, which operates the 40-acre park […]
