Military shipbuilding company HII has received a $336 million contract from the US Navy ...

As the president seeks to redesign future aircraft carriers to reincorporate steam catapults, the US Navy appears to be ...

The USS Enterprise (CVN-65) was the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. Launched in 1958, it served the U.S. Navy for 51 years. The Big E participated in the Cuban Missile Crisis blockade, ...

Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc. announced that it has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Navy to start procurement of long-lead time materials (LLTM) for the construction of planned aircraft ...

The US Navy plans to rename an aircraft carrier under construction that was set to honour a Black sailor hailed for his heroic actions during the Pearl Harbor attack, sources told CNN. According to ...

The USS John F. Kennedy is getting closer to joining the U.S. Navy’s fleet, nearly 11 years after construction began. The 100,000-ton CVN-79, a $13.2 billion ship according to Stars and Stripes, is ...

April 17, 2026: As of late March, the U.S. Navy has only one CVN/Nuclear Powered Aircraft Carrier operating near Iran. The USN has eleven CVNs, but the CVN-78 Ford was sidelined by a fire in its ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va., Sept. 11, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HII (NYSE: HII) announced today that it has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Navy to start procurement of long-lead time materials (LLTM) for ...

The John F. Kennedy, the second Gerald R. Ford class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, left Newport News on Aug. 12 to commence acceptance trials before its handover to the U.S. Navy.

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