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HII builds, designs and services advanced technologies and solutions to accelerate change for the control and exploitation of the air domain. HII has proven experience in procuring, integrating, deploying, and supporting aviation and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) sensor systems and subsystems in high-threat and austere ...
Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS), a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries, is the sole designer, builder, and refueler of aircraft carriers and one of two providers of submarines for the United States Navy.
USS Newport News (CA–148) was the third and last ship of the Des Moines-class of heavy cruisers in the United States Navy. She was the first fully air-conditioned surface ship and the last active all-gun heavy cruiser in the United States Navy.
The USS Newport News (CA-148) was the only one of the three Des Moines Class Heavy Cruisers to see combat: 3 tours to the gun-line in Vietnam 1967 thru 1972. Decommissioned on June 27, 1975, the NEWPORT NEWS spent the following years laid up at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Philadelphia, Penn.
Today, Newport News Shipbuilding, a division of HII, is the na tion’s sole designer, builder and refueler of nuclear -powered aircraft carriers and one of only two shipyards capable of designing and building nuclear -powered submarines. We also provide fleet services for naval ships.
NEWPORT NEWS SHIPBUILDING. Newport News VA. Most recent update: January 17, 2022. Newport News Shipbuilding was started by Collis P. Huntington in 1886, as Chesapeake Dry Dock & Construction Company. Incredibly, within ten years of its foundation it was building battleships for the U.S. Navy.
Newport News Shipbuilding has for more than 135 years built ships that have served the nation in peace and war, in times of adversity and in times of abundance. The legacy of “Always Good Ships,” includes the design, construction, overhaul and repair of more than 800 ships for the U.S. Navy and commercial customers.