Company
Newport News Shipbuilding
Newport News Shipbuilding designs, builds and maintains nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and submarines for the U.S. Navy. ↗
| Headquarters | Newport News, Virginia ↗ |
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| Leadership | Kari Wilkinson, President ↗ |
| Employees | 26,000+ ↗ |
| Ownership | Division of HII ↗ |
Products
- Newport News Shipbuilding is building the Gerald R. Ford-class, the first new U.S. Navy aircraft carrier design since USS Nimitz. ↗
- Newport News Shipbuilding is the only shipyard that performs refueling and complex overhaul (RCOH) on aircraft carriers. ↗
- Newport News Shipbuilding builds six module sections per Columbia-class submarine under contract to General Dynamics Electric Boat. ↗
- Newport News Shipbuilding offers inactivation services for nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and completed the inactivation of Enterprise (CVN 65) in 2018. ↗
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- IndustryNewport News drives HII's shipbuilding margin gainNewport News' profitability improved as Ingalls' declined. HII raised its full-year shipbuilding sales outlook while holding its shipbuilding margin forecast steady.
- Contracts · SubmarinesNavy asks which shipyards could be prime builders for its SSN(X) attack submarineThe market survey also aims to identify future capital expenditure requirements for the planned Virginia-class successor. It commits the Navy to no solicitation or contract.
- Capital · Submarine industrial baseAnduril's next industrial bet is a submarine shipyardAnduril is backing a planned Maryland yard with $3.7 billion in private capital. It says its Navy contract, worth up to $2.9 billion, ties payments to demonstrated production outcomes.