by Associated Press Published: November 5,2012
Tags: defense, employee, employer, employment, job, manufacture, manufacturer, manufacturing, military, ship, shipbuilder, shipbuilding
PASCAGOULA — Ingalls Shipbuilding President Irwin F. Edenzon says the company will hire more than 5,000 workers over the next two years. Edenzon said Ingalls would be hiring 1,200 people through the end of the year and another 4,000 next year. Most of those are craftsman positions. The increase in demand for workers is attributed [...] [...]
MADISON and COLUMBUS — The Air Force has signed a contract with a new company to maintain the jets at Columbus Air Force Base. Aircraft maintenance will be handled by L-3 Vertex of Madison starting in December. The new vendor is taking over from DynCorp International, which had the maintenance contract for seven years. DynCorp [...] [...]
PASCAGOULA — Northrop Grumman Corporation has been awarded a $50.6-million contract by prime contractor Huntington Ingalls Industries to supply the Machinery Control System (MCS) for the U.S. Navy’s LHA-7 amphibious assault ship. The MCS controls the major shipboard systems including the highly automated propulsion, electric plant and fuel fill systems. The equipment being supplied includes [...] [...]
MERIDIAN — Rolls-Royce has been awarded a $103.3-million MissionCare contract by the U.S. Department of Defense to provide support for the F405 (Adour) engines that power the U.S. Navy’s T-45 training aircraft. Under the terms of the agreement, which is administered by the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR), Rolls-Royce will provide inventory control, as well [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: October 12,2012
Tags: accident, disaster, energy, environment, explosion, military, offshore drilling, oil spill, oilrig, pollution, sheen, wildlife
GULF OF MEXICO — The Coast Guard says an oil sheen near the site of the massive BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico matches oil from the 2010 disaster. The Coast Guard says its tests established the oil came from the BP well. It could be left over from the wreckage of the Deepwater [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: September 27,2012
Tags: agriculture, cafeteria, children, commodity, crop, defense, diet, education, farm, farmer, farming, federal government, food, fruit, grant, health, military, nutrition, produce, public school, student, vegetable
DESOTO COUNTY — Either by fork or fingers, the second- and third-grade students of Chickasaw Elementary in Olive Branch dived into some Magnolia-state raised blueberries and cantaloupes as a part of a farm to school awareness program. Picking a blueberry up with her fingers, second-grader Mary Katherine Stephens, 8, liked the tiny cup of fruit [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: September 18,2012
Tags: contract, defense, delivery, fabricate, fabrication, manufacture, manufacturer, manufacturing, military, sdhipbuilder, ship, shipbuilding
PASCAGOULA — Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Ingalls Shipbuilding Division has been awarded an $83.3 million cost-plus-award-fee contract from the U.S. Navy for continued life-cycle engineering, modernization and support services on the U.S. Navy’s fleet of USS Ticonderoga-class (CG 47) Aegis guided missile cruisers. The contract is the first of five options, which if exercised would place [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: September 12,2012
Tags: apparel, Closing, closure, clothes, contract, defense, employee, job, layoff, manufacture, manufacturer, manufacturing, military, plant, sew, sewing, unemployment, work, worker
COLUMBUS — An apparel company that’s losing a military contract to the federal prison system says it plans to lay off 50 workers in Alabama and Mississippi rather than idling two plants. American Power Source Inc. says the layoffs in Fayette, Ala., and Columbus are due to the government’s decision to shift an Air Force [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: September 12,2012
Tags: defense, fabricate, fabrication, manufacture, manufacturer, manufacturing, military, ship, shipbuilder, shipbuilding
PASCAGOULA — Huntington Ingalls Industries has started fabrication on the U.S. Navy’s next Aegis guided missile destroyer, John Finn (DDG 113). The ship will be built at the company’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division and will be the 29th Arleigh Burke-class destroyer built at Ingalls. Bob Merchent, Ingalls’ vice president, surface combatants and U.S. Coast Guard programs, [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: August 31,2012
Tags: defense, fabricate, fabrication, manufacture, manufacturer, manufacturing, military, sea trial, ship, shipbuilder, shipbuilding
PASACAGOULA — The amphibious transport dock Arlington (LPD 24), the eighth built at Huntington Ingalls Industries, recently returned from successful builder’s sea trials in the Gulf of Mexico. Dock trials started last week, and the ship left HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division Aug. 21 for three days of at-sea testing. More than 200 test events took [...] [...]
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