Stiles Bliss News

Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) honored its longstanding reputation by building an award-winning boat, this time made of cardboard instead of steel. NNS, a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries, competed against other Hampton Roads shipyards in FM 99's "The Yard" Ship Repair Competition in Suffolk. With this win, NNS earned the right to call itself "The Yard" of Hampton Roads. Although most shipyards in Hampton Roads use thousands of tons of steel to build massive ships, at "The Yard" competition shipbuilders had to use creativity when given only cardboard, box cutters and duct tape.