MCLEAN, Va., Oct. 09, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HII (NYSE: HII) announced today that its Mission Technologies division was awarded a $75 million task order to provide systems engineering support for integrated training systems used onboard ships to enhance combat preparedness for sailors. Under the Integrated Training Systems—Systems Engineering task order, administered by the U.S. Navy Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division Dam Neck Activity, the HII team will create interfaces between live, virtual ...

PASCAGOULA, Miss., Oct. 08, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HII's (NYSE:HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding division successfully launched on Saturday the first LPD Flight II, San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship Harrisburg (LPD 30), marking one of the first major milestones in the ship's journey towards operational readiness. The Ingalls team translated Harrisburg from land to the company's floating dry dock using translation railcars to support the ship's movement across the pier. While in the dry dock, the In ...

PASCAGOULA, Miss., Oct. 05, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HII's (NYSE: HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding division hosted their second annual Project MFG Maritime Welding Competition, bringing together 19 local students from area high schools and career technical programs to showcase their welding skills. The competition served as an opportunity to highlight the vital role of skilled trades in the manufacturing industry and encourage students to pursue careers in trades critical to the nation's industrial base. "It's ess ...

Huntington Ingalls just landed contracts worth nearly a year's worth of revenue in a single day. One for you, two for me. $6.75 billion for you ... $9.5 billion for me. For the longest time, the U.S. Navy has been dependent upon just two large military shipbuilders to build the bulk of its fleet: General Dynamics (GD 0.35%) and Huntington Ingalls (HII 0.33%). Essentially every submarine and destroyer in active service in the Navy today came from one of these companies. Beyond those two classes, General Dyna ...

NORFOLK, Va., Oct. 04, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HII's (NYSE: HII) Newport News Shipbuilding division is strengthening its collaboration and partnership with Old Dominion University. Leaders from both gathered today to mark the opening of the onsite NNS office located in the ODU Engineering Systems building on the university's main campus in Norfolk, Va. NNS President Jennifer Boykin and ODU President Brian O. Hemphill, Ph.D. participated in a ribbon-cutting event Friday to open the new NNS office and highli ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va., Oct. 04, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HII (NYSE: HII) hosted Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at the company's Newport News Shipbuilding division Thursday. "I firmly believe that honing our warfighting skills has primacy in all we do," Brown said. "It was great to see the hard work of the Navy's shipbuilding team alongside our defense industry partners ensuring we maintain our edge through the construction of the next Ford-class carrier and Columbia-class subm ...

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McLEAN, Va., Oct. 03, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HII (NYSE: HII) announced today that its Mission Technologies division was awarded a task order to conduct research that will enhance the development and evolution of navigation and autonomy technologies for the U.S. Air Force and broader U.S. Department of Defense. An HII team at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, will develop and analyze research for the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) Autonomy and Navigation Technology (ANT) Center's t ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va., Oct. 03, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HII (NYSE: HII) will release its third quarter 2024 financial results on Thursday, Oct. 31 and host an earnings conference call at 9 a.m. Eastern time the same day. The call will be webcast live on HII's website: https://www.hii.com/. HII participants will include Chris Kastner, president and CEO, and Tom Stiehle, executive vice president and chief financial officer. Their remarks will be supplemented by a series of slides appearing on the company website ...

WILLOWBROOK, Ill., Oct. 02, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HII's (NYSE: HII) Mission Technologies division opened its new Advanced Materials and Coatings Lab (AMCL) facility in Willowbrook, Illinois. This state-of-the-art lab is dedicated to developing and manufacturing cutting-edge thermal space coatings for the aerospace industry, government and commercial space programs, and commercial satellite providers. The new AMCL will build upon HII's six-decade legacy of innovation in supporting NASA space programs, the ...