Navy announces new frigate class, taps HII to build off national security cutter
“Recent operations from the Red Sea to the Caribbean make the requirement undeniable,” Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle said.
HII’s Wilkinson to take over as Newport News Shipbuilding chief in 2025; Boykin to retire
The leadership changes come following HII's bleak report to Wall Street, but a company spokesman said the timing "aligns with Jennifer [Boykin's] retirement plans."
presented by
Keeping sensitive information safe in a new AI era
Why edge and endpoint security can’t be an afterthought.
At Ingalls, plenty of space for shipbuilding but ramping up workforce will be the challenge
“People can go do far less difficult things for just about the same money from an entry wage standpoint,” Ingalls' Shipbuilding President Kari Wilkinson told Breaking Defense. “I will say though that within a year-and-a-half to two years, you can double your salary as a shipbuilder.”
Navy secures multi-ship amphib buy, saving estimated $1B: Lawmaker
The arrangement for four amphibious vessels from shipbuilder HII's Ingalls Shipbuilding comes after Congress has pressured Navy brass for years to pursue such a deal.
Multi-ship amphib buy could net $900M in savings, say Navy, Marine Corps officials
Lawmakers gave the Navy authorities to ink a multi-ship amphib deal years ago, but the service has not utilized that power yet.
HII studies own potential changes to the amphibs amid Pentagon cost squabbles
An Ingalls executive told reporters the company is acutely aware that affordability is top of mind for the Navy and Marine Corps when it comes to amphibious shipbuilding.
presented by
Next-generation C2 won’t be next-gen without the network transport
The network transport architecture for NGC2 could be a hybrid approach that combines high assurance communications with 5G, WiFi, and multi-orbit satellites.
HII’s Ingalls seeks stability in amphibs, ‘absolutely’ eyeing second frigate yard competition
A company executive says the yard is "fully modernized" after spending more than a billion dollars over several years to improve its facilities.
Navy Rushes Shipbuilding Deals To Keep Yards Going In Pandemic
“We're gonna have to brave the storm together, especially some of the smaller suppliers,” said Lucas Hicks, vice president of new construction aircraft carrier programs.
Huntington-Ingalls Sinks $2B Into Shipyards: Digital Plans & Computerized Welding
"Each of your crafts -- electrical, pipefitting, pipe-welding, painting, your riggers… still require some human touch," Kastner told me. "Digital tools… free the craftsman up a bit to not do the grunt work."
Shipyards Serving US Navy Already Use Chinese-Built Drydocks
WASHINGTON: At least three shipyards that do work for the US Navy have bought and used drydocks from China. This would seem to lower the stakes for Huntington-Ingalls Industries, currently searching for a Chinese drydock of its own with help from homestate Senator Thad Cochran, as reported yesterday in the Washington Post. BAE Systems’ San Diego yard […]
presented by
Data overload threatens decisionmakers as autonomy expands
Reducing cognitive overload on warfighters while improving “time to trust” for autonomous systems is a matter of design.
Navy Seeks To Boost Shipbuilding: Amphibs, Subs, Destroyers
CAPITOL HILL: Despite tight budgets at the Pentagon, the Navy wants to speed-up several shipbuilding programs — amphibious warships, destroyers, and submarines — and Congress seems inclined to give them the money. That’s testimony both to the perennial political popularity of shipbuilding, which employs a lot of voters, and to the rising strategic anxiety over […]
Where Are The Icebreakers?!
We’ve got something here for Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Angus King and Coast Guard Commandant Paul Zukunft to read before they speak Wednesday at the Center for Strategic and International Studies on “National Security Challenges and Icebreaking Operations in the Arctic.” Scott Truver, known to most serious students of Navy shipbuilding, argues the case for icebreakers. […]
More Ships, More Missiles, Less Waiting: Rep. Forbes Talks 2016 NDAA
CAPITOL HILL: More ships. More weapons. Less waiting. That’s the essential philosophy of Rep. Randy Forbes, chairman of the House subcommittee on seapower. In the draft National Defense Authorization Act headed for mark-up next week, he certainly seems to have gotten his way — on amphibious assault ships, submarines, land-based cruise missiles, and more. “My […]
Half Of Shipbuilders ‘1 Contract Away’ From Bust: Stackley
WASHINGTON: “About half” of the shipyards building US Navy vessels are “one contract away” from leaving the business, the Navy’s top procurement officer told the Senate today. After decades of decline due to foreign competition, the US shipbuilding industry has become so fragile and so dependent on government contracts that the Navy is taking unprecedented and […]