The future USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79), the Navy’s second Ford-class aircraft carrier, went to sea for the first time on ...
The USS John F. Kennedy set sail for its shipbuilder sea trials Wednesday, allowing HII to test the vessel out at sea for the ...
"Think of U.S. shipbuilding as an enterprise, facing enterprise-wide challenges," Seamus Daniels said. "This is a systemic ...
The sea trials assessed the ship’s systems following integration of the US Navy’s first Conventional Prompt Strike system.
HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division has successfully completed builder’s sea trials for USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000), putting the ...
“I did not expect to be told to build a battleship when I got this job,” Rear Adm. Derek Trinque, the Navy staff’s surface ...
The Navy’s budget request for the 2026 fiscal year is its most ambitious shipbuilding push in years. After asking Congress for just six new ships in the last fiscal year, and nine in the one before ...
Two days before Thanksgiving, Navy Secretary John Phelan announced the cancellation of the $22 billion 20 ship Constellation multi-mission frigate program. The ship was meant to be capable of ...
Secretary of the Navy John Phelan stressed that America’s shipyards would need 250,000 additional workers in the near ...