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Huntington Ingalls Industries Weapon Systems

Huntington Ingalls Industries is a U.S. defense shipbuilder and technology contractor whose Newport News and Ingalls yards produce the naval platforms and related systems that anchor this catalog's shipbuilding archive. Its builder profile groups the company around surface combatants, aircraft carriers, submarines, and defense technology work.

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Huntington Ingalls Industries formed in 2011 as an independently traded company and now presents itself as America's seapower company. Its core industrial footprint centers on Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia and Ingalls Shipbuilding in Mississippi, with Mission Technologies expanding the corporate portfolio into defense technology and unmanned systems.

This archive page exists to connect the company to the cataloged naval systems it builds or has built, especially surface combatants, aircraft carriers, and submarines associated with its Newport News and Ingalls shipyards.

Naval shipbuildingSurface combatantsAircraft carriersSubmarinesDefense technologyUnmanned systems

Notable Systems

Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer

Ingalls Shipbuilding is one of the builders tied to the DDG 51 family, which anchors the catalog's HII-connected surface-combatant entries.

Sources: HII homepage, Ingalls Shipbuilding, HII history

Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier

Newport News Shipbuilding builds the Ford-class carriers that define HII's carrier-production role in the catalog.

Sources: HII homepage, Newport News Shipbuilding, HII history

Virginia-class submarine

Newport News Shipbuilding builds and maintains Virginia-class submarines, linking HII to the catalog's nuclear submarine archive.

Sources: HII homepage, Newport News Shipbuilding, HII history

Builder History

  1. HII is formed

    HII says it formed on March 31, 2011 as an independently, publicly traded company when two legacy shipyards joined forces.

    Sources: HII history

  2. Mission Technologies is added

    HII says it established a third division in 2016, expanding beyond shipbuilding into technologies and services.

    Sources: HII history

  3. HII acquires Alion Science and Technology

    HII says it acquired Alion Science and Technology in 2021, widening its defense-technology and digital engineering portfolio.

    Sources: HII history

Predecessors
Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding
Website links
HII homepageHII historyHII contact pageNewport News ShipbuildingIngalls Shipbuilding

HII's 2011 corporate formation sits on top of much older shipyard heritage, so older Newport News and Ingalls history should be treated as predecessor context rather than as the age of the current company.

Builder Sources

  • HII homepagePublisher: Huntington Ingalls Industries | Note: Supports HII's current role as America's seapower company, its naval shipbuilding and defense-technology focus, and the company-level background for the builder profile. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • HII historyPublisher: Huntington Ingalls Industries | Note: Supports the 31 March 2011 formation date, the independently publicly traded company description, the 2016 third division, and the 2021 Alion acquisition timeline. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • HII contact pagePublisher: Huntington Ingalls Industries | Note: Supports the corporate headquarters address at 4101 Washington Ave., Newport News, Virginia 23607. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • Newport News ShipbuildingPublisher: Huntington Ingalls Industries | Note: Supports Newport News Shipbuilding's role in building and maintaining nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and submarines, which anchors the builder profile's product-family context. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • Ingalls ShipbuildingPublisher: Huntington Ingalls Industries | Note: Supports Ingalls Shipbuilding's role in amphibious ships, destroyers, and cutters, which anchors the builder profile's surface-combatant context. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • USS John Warner at Newport News ShipbuildingPublisher: Wikimedia Commons | Note: Public-domain image provenance page; the file page states the image was released by the U.S. Navy and shows Newport News Shipbuilding moving a Virginia-class submarine through its floating dry dock. | Accessed: 2026-06-21

Category

Artillery

Tube artillery, rocket artillery, and long-range ground fires.

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Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, Guided-missile destroyer, ArtilleryUnited States-Iran ConflictArleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyerGuided-missile destroyerBuilt in: United StatesThe Arleigh Burke class is the U.S. Navy's principal guided-missile destroyer family, built around Aegis sensors, Mk 41 vertical launch cells, and multi-mission air, surface, subsurface, ballistic-missile-defense, and land-attack roles. In the United States-Iran Conflict, official U.S. imagery documented multiple DDG 51-class ships firing Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles during Operation Epic Fury.