Newport News Shipbuilding contract to support Research and Development for future submarines Newport News Shipbuilding contract to support Research and Development for future submarines Saturday, 13 February 2021 16:45
According to a contract published by the United States Department of Defense (DoD) on February 11, 2021, Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Newport News Shipbuilding division, Newport News, Virginia, is awarded a $13,435,247 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for engineering and technical design effort to support research and development concept formulation for current and future submarine platforms. U.S. Navy Virginia-class submarine USS Delaware (SSN-791) manufactured by Newport News Shipbuilding, a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries (Picture source Huntington Ingalls Industries)
This contract procures advanced submarine research and development (R&D) including studies to support assessments, development, design studies and tests; provide on-site
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Northam teams with Maryland, D.C. counterparts to press for more vaccines for federal employees, shipyards [The Daily Press]
Gov. Ralph Northam, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan and Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser are asking federal officials to do more to support COVID-19 vaccinations for federal employees and essential defense contractors.
Those workers include many in Hampton Roads, said Alena Yarmosky, Northam’s press secretary.
“It will absolutely include Hampton Roads, what we’re thinking about is the shipyards,” she said.
While Newport News Shipbuilding started vaccinated employees last week, the high demand for vaccines meant it did not get another lot this week as it had hoped. The yard is expecting to eventually get enough to vaccinate its entire workforce but it has said supplies may come fairly slowly this month.
A sharp increase in revenue at Newport News Shipbuilding largely due to its work on aircraft carriers powered a strong gain in business for its parent, Huntington Ingalls Industries for the fourth quarter of 2020, the company reported Thursday. Newport News Shipbuilding’s revenue rose 25.1% in the quarter over the year before, to reach $1.8 billion. After accounting for its operating costs .