Detail design work has now kicked off on the FFG(X) guided-missile frigate program after the Navy received no protests over its decision to award the potential 15-year, $5.6B design and construction contract to a Wisconsin-based subsidiary of Fincantieri, USNI News reported Wednesday....
Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) has been awarded a potential $187.5M contract by the U.S. Navy for design and engineering of one America-class amphibious warfare vessel....
The U.S. Navy is set to award an initial $1.2B contract for the contruction of its next-generation small multimission frigate in an initiative to accelerate a shipbuilding program that was supposed to commence later this year, Breaking Defense reported Tuesday....
James Geurts, acquisition chief at the U.S. Navy and a 2020 Wash100 Award winner, said the service has provided defense contractors $600M in payments it previously put on hold to ensure performance on awarded contracts, Reuters reported Tuesday....
Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) has won a potential five-year, $64.1M contract from the U.S. Air Force to support operational training activities of Air National Guard. The company will help ANG manage technical and programmatic functions at the Distributed Training Operations Center in Des Moines, Iowa, the Department of Defense said F...
Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) will perform planning yard services for the U.S. Navy's in-service littoral combat ships under a contract modification worth nearly $108M over two years....
Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) has secured a potential seven-year, $1.51B contract modification to design and build a second vessel under the U.S. Navy's LPD-17 Flight II amphibious ship program....
Katie Arrington Offers Updates on Pentagon’s CMMC Program Katie Arrington, chief information security officer for acquisition with DoD and 2020 Wash100 Award recipient, elaborated to Government Matters during an interview about the creation of standards that third-party assessment organizations will use to evaluate and certify contractors unde...
Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) has finalized its acquisition of Pocasset, Mass.-based marine robotics provider Hydroid from Kongsberg Maritime for approximately $350M as part of efforts to expand its capabilities in the autonomous and unmanned maritime systems market. HII said Thursday it will operate Hydroid as part of unmanned sy...
Julia Jones, most recently director of operations integration at Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII), has been named vice president of manufacturing and facilities within the company's Newport News Shipbuilding division. HII said Monday it also promoted Gary Fuller, former director of test engineering for the company's nuclear p...
