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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 ...
The two ships of the U.S.T. Atlantic class, the U.S.T. Atlantic and U.S.T. Pacific, were the largest ships ever built in the Western Hemisphere. Newport News Shipbuilding were the builders, the only American shipbuilders with the facilities for ULCC construction. A third vessel of the class ordered by Zapata Ocean Carriers was canceled. [2] At full load, the ships drew nearly 75 feet (22.86 m ...
At the formerly sleepy little farming community of Newport News Point, Huntington began other, building the landmark Hotel Warwick and founding the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company. This became the largest privately owned shipyard in the United States.
The United States Congress authorized the construction of Texas, the second Navy ship to be named after that state, on 24 June 1910. [ 16 ][ 17 ] Bids for Texas were accepted from 27 September to 1 December with the winning bid of $5,830,000—excluding the price of armor and armament—submitted by Newport News Shipbuilding. [ 4 ][ 18 ][ 19 ] The contract was signed on 17 December and the ...
Jennifer Boykin. Boykin in 2017, signing a steel plate used to begin the construction of USS Enterprise (CVN-80) Jennifer Boykin is an engineer, the first woman president [1] of Newport News Shipbuilding, [2][3] and the vice president of Huntington Ingalls Industries, [2][3] which is located in Newport News, Virginia.
Newport News Shipbuilding reports the discovery by their internal quality assurance systems of alleged intentional faulty welds on in-service submarines and aircraft carriers.
Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc. (HII) is the largest military shipbuilding company in the United States as well as a provider of professional services to partners in government and industry. HII, ranked No. 375 on the Fortune 500, was formed on 31 March 2011, as a divestiture from Northrop Grumman. [5][6] HII comprises three divisions: Newport News Shipbuilding, Ingalls Shipbuilding, and ...
The United States has two yards capable of building nuclear-powered submarines: General Dynamics’ Electric Boat Division (GD/EB) of Groton, CT, and Quonset Point, RI; and Huntington Ingalls Industries ’ Newport News Shipbuilding (HII/NNS), of Newport News, VA. The actual construction approach is currently undecided and may take one of two forms: [citation needed] Joint construction by the ...