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, software engineering and IT solutions, cybersecurity, other DoD training, unmanned systems, intelligence analysis, Department of Energy nuclear operations, nuclear fabrication, oil and gas services)
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.
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Employing more than 11,000 employees, HII's Ingalls Shipbuilding is the largest manufacturing employer in Mississippi and a major contributor to the economic growth of Alabama. For 85 years, Ingalls has designed, built and maintained amphibious ships, destroyers, and cutters for the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Coast Guard. The largest supplier of U.S. Navy surface combatants, Ingalls is simultaneously building four classes of ships.
Brian Blanchette, who served as vice president of quality at Ingalls from 2021 to 2024, began serving as president of Ingalls Shipbuilding and vice president of HII on 1 January 2025, after his predecessor Kari Wilkinson was named president of Newport News Shipbuilding in November 2024. As president, Blanchette is responsible for all programs and operations at Ingalls, including the U.S. Navy’s amphibious assault and surface combatant ship programs.
Newport News Shipbuilding
Founded in 1886, HII's Newport News Shipbuilding, headquartered in Newport News, Virginia, is the nation’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. The division's 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.
Jennifer Boykin served as president of Newport News Shipbuilding and executive president of HII from 2017 to 2025. Boykin was the 20th person and the first woman to serve as president. On 1 January 2025, Kari Wilkinson was named to this position, coming from HII's Ingalls shipyard in Mississippi.
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)
Tallulah, Louisiana (components and subassemblies, closed in 2011)
Waggaman, Louisiana (closed in 2011)
Avondale Shipyard, New Orleans, Louisiana (amphibs, auxiliaries, closed in October 2014)
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.
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).
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.
The multi-year project is performed only once during a carrier’s 50-year life and includes refueling of the ship’s two nuclear reactors, as well as significant repair, upgrade and modernization work. HII have completed the refueling and complex overhaul of the first six ships of the Nimitz-class, USS Nimitz (CVN 68), USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69), USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70), USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) and USS George Washington (CVN 73). As of 2024, HII is performing this work on the seventh ship in the class, USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74).
USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) is scheduled to begin RCOH at HII in late September 2026.
Aircraft carrier inactivation
Newport News Shipbuilding also offers inactivation services for nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. In 2018, NNS successfully completed the inactivation of Enterprise (CVN 65), which began in 2013. The NNS-built Enterprise was the world’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and the only ship of its class.
Mission Technologies contracts
In August 2023, HII's Mission Technologies division received its largest contract win through the $1.4 billion Joint Network Engineering and Emerging Operations (J-NEEO) task order.
HII's Mission Technologies also celebrated other several large contract wins:
1.3 billion to support the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) Personnel Recovery Enterprise Services and Solutions (PRESS) task order
A $995 million contract to provide Advisory and Assistance Services (A&AS) for the U.S. Air Forces in Europe-Air Forces Africa (USAFE-AFAFRICA)
A $242 million contract to provide shore-based training, engineering and development support (SBEDS) for the U.S. Navy
"Golden Fleet"
On 19 December 2025 the US Navy announced it would commission a new class of frigates in a series of warships to make up US President Donald Trump's envisioned "Golden Fleet". A derivative of the National Security Cutter, designated FF(X), was chosen for production.
