Huntington Ingalls Inc. has booked a potential $358.6 million contract from the U.S. Navy for services supporting the inactivation and defueling of the USS Nimitz. The Department of Defense said Thursday HHI will conduct advanced planning and procurement of material necessary for the eventual inactivation and defueling of the CVN 68 aircraft ca...
HII reported $3 billion in fourth-quarter revenues for fiscal 2024 and saw its full-year revenue increase 0.7 percent to $11.5 billion. In an earnings release published Thursday, the military shipbuilding company logged $12.1 billion in new contract awards and ended the year with a total backlog of approximately $48.7 billion. HII recorded quarterly...
HII has promoted Derek Murphy to vice president of new construction aircraft carriers at its Newport News Shipbuilding division. Murphy, a two-decade company veteran, will now be in charge of the shipyard’s production of all new construction aircraft carriers, including the USS John F. Kennedy, USS Enterprise and USS Doris Miller, HII sa...
HII has received a five-year, $296 million task order from the U.S. Air Force Installation Contracting Center’s 764 Enterprise Sourcing Squadron to provide air and space operation support services to the U.S. Air Forces in Europe-Air Forces in Africa, or USAFE-AFAFRICA. Technical and Analytical Support for USAFE-AFAFRICA The McLean, Virginia-...
HII has completed the acquisition of a South Carolina-based metal fabricator as part of a push to expand its shipbuilding capacity. The company said Monday the acquired facility will support the production of nuclear-powered submarine modules and aircraft carrier structures for U.S. Navy programs. Following the transaction, HII has commenced work at...
Chris Bishop has returned to HII as chief growth officer of the company’s mission technologies division. The executive confirmed his move in a LinkedIn post Sunday. Who is HII Mission Technologies’ Head of Growth Bishop served as CGO at HII MIssion Technologies from August 2021 to April 2023. During that time, he led the implementa...
Jennifer Childs was appointed vice president of quality and engineering at HII‘s Ingalls Shipbuilding division, where she has worked for in nearly two decades. HII said Childs will manage and oversee quality programs and ship design, engineering, integrated logistics support and planning yard engineering in her new role, effective Jan. 6. The ...
HII, a global, all-domain defense provider, has received an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract valued at $6.7 billion from the U.S. Air Force to provide electronic warfare engineering and technical services. The company said Thursday the contract, by far the largest deal ever secured by its Mission Technologies division, was revealed ...
HII has announced its intent to acquire the assets and workforce of the South Carolina-based complex metal fabricator W International SC and Vivid Empire SC. The shipbuilder said Wednesday that the transaction will increase its capacity to support military customers. The acquisition is expected to be completed in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2...
The HII board of directors has elected Kari Wilkinson as president of Newport News Shipbuilding, or NNS, the largest company division overseeing over 26,000 shipbuilders who design, build and maintain nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and submarines. The shipbuilder said Wednesday Wilkinson, who has served as president of HII’s Ingalls Shipbui...
