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26 Apr 2021

MARAD Awards $20 Million in Shipyard Grants

(Photo: Eastern Shipbuilding)

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration (MARAD) on Monday awarded $19.6 million in grants aiming to help 31 shipyards modernize, increase productivity, and expand local employment opportunities while competing in the global marketplace.The grants were awarded to shipbuilding and repair yards in 15 states throughout the U.S. as part of MARAD's Small Shipyard Grant Program. Since 2008, the program has awarded $262.5 million to nearly 300 shipyards in 32 states and territories.

28 Jan 2016

SS United States: Deal Reportedly brokered to Save Historic Ship

(Image: Maritime Reporter & Engineering News)

A deal has been brokered to save the historic liner SS United States, with full details scheduled to be announced in New York City on Thursday, February 4, 2016. Once the queen of the express liners, and the fastest, safest and biggest passenger liner in history, the SS United States for years has quietly awaited rescue in Philadelphia. Built by Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co. (now Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) and designed by legendary  William Francis Gibbs (Gibbs & Cox, Inc.

03 Sep 2015

Former CIA Spy Ship Becomes Victim of Oil Slump

U.S. Government Photo

A ship built by the CIA for a secret Cold War mission in 1974 to raise a sunken Soviet sub is heading to the scrap yard, a victim of the slide in oil prices. Christened the Hughes Glomar Explorer, after billionaire Howard Hughes was brought in on the CIA's deception, the 619-foot vessel eventually became part of the fleet of ships used by Swiss company Transocean to drill for oil. But the oil price rout means the former spy ship now called GSF Explorer is just one of 40 such offshore drilling rigs that have been consigned to scrap since last year.

22 Dec 2014

Contract Awarded for US Aircraft Carrier Dismantling

Photo: U.S. Navy

The U.S. Navy awarded a contract, Dec. 22, for the towing and dismantling of the decommissioned aircraft carrier Ranger (CV 61) to International Shipbreaking, Ltd. Under the contract, the company will be paid $0.01, a price that reflects the net price proposed by International Shipbreaking, Inc., which considered the estimated proceeds from the sale of the scrap metal to be generated from dismantling. This is not a sales contract, it is a procurement contract; $0.01 is the lowest price the Navy could possibly have paid the contractor for towing and dismantling the ship.

25 Feb 2014

SS United States: Leading Lady to Damsel in Distress

This is now ... United States seen from S. Christopher Columbus Blvd., Philadelphia.

Once queen of the express liners, and the fastest, safest and biggest passenger liner in history, the SS United States today quietly awaits rescue from a pending cruise to the scrapyard. The Big Ship the Big U, the one that didn’t sink. The S.S. She is waiting for a rescue that may never come from an appointment with the scrap yard looming large on her summer schedule. And that would be a shame according to her many supporters, not the least of which was the late newsman and sailor, Walter Cronkite.

05 Apr 2004

NNS Wins Sub Development Deal

Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co. was awarded on Mar. 31, 2004, a $17,212,146 cost-plus-fixed-fee modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-01-C-2104) to exercise an option for development and design studies, design agent, engineering and technical support, test and evaluation efforts on current and future submarine platforms in support of the program executive office for submarines. Work will be performed in Newport News, Va., and is expected to be completed by March 2006. Contract funds in the amount of $30,000 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity.

24 Jun 2005

Navy Contract Awarded

requirements of Navy living barges and their auxiliary systems. $44,017,888 (Norfolk Shiprepair). Amphibious Base Little Creek, and at respective contractors' facilities. expected to be completed by June 2006. will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. eight final offers received. The Mid-Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center, U.S. Shiprepair and Drydock Co., Inc.: N40025-05-D-5013).

08 Oct 2002

NNS Wins Navy Contract

Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., Newport News, Va., is being awarded a $5,878,888 cost-plus-fixed-fee modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-99-C-2100) for aircraft carrier engineering support services. The contract will provide engineering, technical and design agent services in support of aircraft carrier programs. This effort includes conducting and supporting feasibility and tradeoff studies on new and modified shipboard systems and supporting ship design efforts. Work will be performed in Newport News, Va., and is to be completed by September 2003. Contract funds in the amount of $5,878,888 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity.

12 Dec 2002

Newport News Shipbuilding Awarded Contract

Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., Newport News, Va., is being awarded a $143,103,367 cost-plus-fixed-fee modification for FY03 advanced planning and material procurement for the refueling and complex overhaul (RCOH) of the USS Carl Vinson. Work will be performed at Newport News (97 percent) and Puget Sound, Wash. (3 percent), and is to be completed by November 2003. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity.

10 Jul 2003

NNS Gets $107M More For CVN21

Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., Newport News, Va., is being awarded a $107,591,106 cost-plus-fixed-fee modification to previously awarded contract N00024-00-C-2108 for continued CVN 21 pre-system development and design efforts, including engineering design and related efforts, for the Future Aircraft Carrier Program. Work will be performed in Newport News, Va. (58%), and Groton, Conn. (42%), and is expected to be completed by April 2004. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington Navy Yard, D.C., is the contracting activity.

23 Dec 2002

NNS Gets $34.6M for new Carrier Research

development for the future aircraft carrier program, CVNX. product data environment for CVNX-1. Newport News, Va. (95%), and Groton, Conn. completed by December 2003. the end of the current fiscal year. Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity.

30 Dec 2002

Northrop Grumman Announce Contract Modification

development for the future aircraft carrier program, CVNX. product data environment for CVNX-1. Newport News, Va. (95%), and Groton, Conn. completed by December 2003. the end of the current fiscal year. Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity.