Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc. (HII) is the largest military shipbuilding company in the United States as well as a provider of professional services to partners in government and industry. HII was formed on March 31, 2011, as a divestiture from Northrop Grumman.[5][6]
HII comprises three divisions: Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia, Ingalls Shipbuilding in Mississippi, and Mission Technologies.
In April 2022, Huntington Ingalls Industries changed its branding name to HII.[7]
History
When it spun off as a new company on March 31, 2011, Huntington Ingalls Industries comprised Northrop Grumman’s shipbuilding businesses in Newport News, Virginia, Pascagoula, Mississippi, and Avondale, Louisiana; Avondale was closed in 2014.[8]
Since its creation, HII has built and expanded its professional and government services through the acquisitions of UniversalPegasus International, the S.M. Stoller Corporation, Camber Corporation, Novonics, the Columbia Group's Engineering Solutions division, G2 Inc., Alion Science and Technology, and Fulcrum IT Services.
In 2016, HII established a third division, Technical Solutions (now Mission Technologies),[9] comprising the company's services capabilities. HII’s Mission Technologies division is headquartered in McLean, Virginia, with more than 100 facilities across the globe.
HII is named for the founders of its shipbuilding divisions: Collis Potter Huntington, who founded Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, and Robert Ingersoll Ingalls Sr., who established Ingalls Shipbuilding.
On October 10, 2024, the People's Republic of China announced sanctions on three U.S. military-industrial companies and 10 Americans, including Huntington Ingalls Industries and its president and CEO Christopher D. Kastner, for participating in arms sales to Taiwan.[10]
Divisions
- Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, Virginia (U.S. Navy nuclear aircraft carriers, submarines, refueling and complex overhaul, carrier inactivation)
- Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi (U.S. Navy surface combatants, amphibious warships, and U.S. Coast Guard National Security Cutters)
- Mission Technologies, (U.S. unified combatant command support, U.S. Navy fleet support, USAF and Air National Guard training support,[11] software engineering and IT solutions, cybersecurity, other DoD training, unmanned systems, intelligence analysis, Department of Energy nuclear operations, nuclear fabrication, oil and gas services)
Ingalls Shipbuilding
In 1938, Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation was founded by Robert Ingersoll Ingalls Sr. (1882–1951), on the East Bank of the Pascagoula River in Mississippi. It started out building commercial ships until the 1950s, when Ingalls started bidding on Navy work.[12]
Facilities
HII operates facilities in several key locations across the US:
- Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, Virginia (nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and submarines, refueling and complex overhaul, aircraft carrier inactivation)
- Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi (U.S. Navy surface combatants, amphibious assault ships; U.S. Coast Guard national security cutters)
- Virginia Beach, Virginia (fleet support, training)
- San Diego, California (fleet support and repair)
- Huntsville, Alabama (modeling and simulation, training, professional services)
- Fairfax, Virginia (IT and cybersecurity services)
Former facilities
- Gulfport, Mississippi (composite R&D, composite components)
Projects
Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers
As the nation’s sole designer-builder of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, HII is currently designing and building the next-generation of aircraft carriers – the Gerald R. Ford class, the first new design for an aircraft carrier in decades – that use new technologies to provide the U.S. Navy with increased power and reduced manning. The company is to build ten Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers for the U.S. Navy and is scheduled to deliver one carrier every five years starting in 2015.[21]
In 2019, the U.S. Navy awarded HII a $15.2 billion block contract for the detail design and construction of Enterprise (CVN-80) and Doris Miller (CVN-81).[22]
Aircraft Carrier Refueling and Complex Overhaul (RCOH)
HII's Newport News Shipbuilding is the only shipyard to perform refueling and complex overhaul (RCOH) work on aircraft carriers. This massive undertaking was described in a 2002 Rand Study as one of the most challenging engineering and industrial tasks undertaken anywhere by any organization.
External links
References
- Huntington Ingalls Industries. Kirkland H. Donald – Huntington Ingalls Industries retrieved 5 April 2022^
- Huntington Ingalls Industries. Christopher D. Kastner – Huntington Ingalls Industries retrieved 5 April 2022^
- Katherine Schulte. HII taps former DOD chief of staff as EVP