AUGUST 2, 2012 — U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis was front and center when representatives of the Newport News Shipbuilding Apprentice School attended a Department of Labor national apprenticeship summit. Huntington
JULY 28, 2012—The day before christening the ninth Landing Platform Dock ship in the San Antonio Class, Huntington Ingalls Inc., Pascagoula, MS, was awarded a $1.514 billion fixed-price-incentive modification to previously awarded
JULY 27, 2012 — General Dynamics, NASSCO, Norfolk, Va., is being awarded a $115,016,340 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-09-C-4416) for amphibious landing ship USS Oak Hill (LSD 51) to extended drydocking,
JULY 25, 2012 —Trinity Offshore, LLC and FMT Industries, LLC have christened and launched FMT 3242, the first of ten 297 ft 6 in x 54 ft x 12 ft, 30,000 barrel
JULY 23, 2012 — Casey James Fury, a civilian employee working as a painter and sandblaster at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, has been charged with two counts of arson in relation to fires
JULY 20, 2012 —IFS North America reports that Seaspan Shipyards has selected IFS Applications as its shipbuilding materials requirements planning (MRP) solution. IFS Applications was chosen because it provides a powerful project-based
JULY 20, 2012 — Jaya Shipbuilding and Engineering Pte. Ltd., the shipbuilding subsidiary of Singapore’s Jaya Holdings, has signed an agreement with IHC Merwede Asia Pacific that enables IHC’s high-specification offshore vessels
JULY 19, 2012 — Even though it failed to make a payment due on June 20, 2012, Fairstar Heavy Transport N.V., says there is “no indication” that a newbuilding contract it entered
JULY 19, 2012 — Huntington Ingalls Industries Newport News Shipbuilding Division (NNS) is being awarded a $43,418,660 modification to a previously awarded contract (N00024-09-C-2116) for the procurement of additional long lead time
JULY 18, 2012 — Great Lakes Shipyard, Cleveland, Ohio, Great Lakes Shipyard has completed repairs on the Ohio Department of Natural Resources research vessel Grandon. The R/V Grandon is part of the