The next Ford-class aircraft carrier is set to go to sea for the first time early next year and employee retention is ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va., June 23, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HII (NYSE: HII) announced today that its Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division has received contract modifications totaling $393.3 million from ...

The US Navy's next aircraft carrier is almost finished but faces challenges with its elevators, among other technology. The advanced weapons elevators were previously an issue on the first-in-class ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — HII announced Wednesday that its Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division recently started topside testing of the electromagnetic aircraft launch system on Ford-class aircraft ...

HII announced today that its Newport News Shipbuilding division (NNS) recently began topside testing of the electromagnetic aircraft launch system (EMALS) on aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy (CVN 79).

Shipbuilders and suppliers are supporting the construction of Kennedy at NNS, which is the nation's sole designer, builder, and refueler of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. Also Read: Huntington ...

The USS Gerald R. Ford was meant to revolutionize U.S. carrier aviation, but its path to sea was defined by delay and spiraling costs. -Ford packed in too many “firsts” at once—EMALS catapults, ...

The aircraft carriers CVN-78, CVN-79, CVN-80, and CVN-81 are the first four ships in the Navy’s new Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) class of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers (CVNs). The Navy’s proposed ...

Nine days after christening the U.S. Navy’s newest nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (NYSE:HII) Newport News Shipbuilding division launched John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) into ...

CVN 79 is the second aircraft carrier in the Ford Class and the second aircraft carrier built by Newport News Shipbuilding named for John F. Kennedy. It is a truly electric aircraft carrier, with many ...