Huntington Ingalls Inc.

Huntington Ingalls Inc. Newport News Shipbuilding Division, a subsidiary of Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc., designs, builds, maintains, and modernizes nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and submarines for the U.S. Navy as a large-business prime contractor on cost-plus-fixed-fee and cost-plus-incentive delivery orders and definitive contracts issued predominantly by Naval Sea Systems Command. The division competes full-and-open without small business set-asides and holds no SBA designations, reflecting its status as the Navy's sole aircraft carrier builder and one of two nuclear submarine builders.

Huntington Ingalls Newport News operates across a concentrated federal footprint anchored in one customer: the Department of the Navy accounts for virtually all recent awards. Naval Sea Systems Command, the commanding contracting office, issued 959 delivery orders and IDIQs worth $63.57 billion in combined potential value, followed by U.S. Fleet Forces Command (Atlantic) with 109 awards valued at $6.15 billion and U.S. Pacific Fleet Forces with 81 awards at $751 million. Across the entire award portfolio, 6,316 of 6,345 recent awards are primes; the division subcontracts minimally on its own work but frequently supplies components and services to Electric Boat Corporation, Lockheed Martin Corporation, and Advanced Technology International on Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program work, CVN-class carrier programs, and Navy ManTech manufacturing initiatives.

The division's concrete work centers on aircraft carrier and submarine lifecycle support. Representative prime awards include a $1.503 billion definitive contract for CVN 75 (USS Dwight D. Eisenhower) refueling and complex overhaul advance planning (December 2023, through July 31, 2029); a $471.97 million definitive contract for Aircraft Carrier Engineering Support and Ford-class design support (December 2025, through November 30, 2030); a $376.7 million definitive contract for CVN 68 (USS Nimitz) inactivation and defueling advance planning (March 2025, through October 18, 2027); a $528.4 million IDIQ (N0002423D4107) for Planned Incremental Availability and Carrier Incremental Availability planning and execution on San Diego-based carriers (awarded July 21, 2023, through July 13, 2028, with hundreds of task orders issued); and a $48.4 million definitive contract for Naval Reactors engineering and design for standard Navy valve components (October 2025, through December 7, 2026). Smaller delivery orders address discrete maintenance—USS Theodore Roosevelt, USS Abraham Lincoln, USS Carl Vinson, and USS George Washington maintenance availabilities; submarine repair on USS Scranton, USS Santa Fe, USS Hampton, and USS Greenville; component procurement (cable assemblies, shock mounts, manifolds, reducing valves); and installation planning and execution for systems like large vertical arrays on attack submarines.

Top parent vehicles by task-order volume include multiple indefinite-delivery contracts: N0002483C2033 (496 task orders), N0002484C2079 (262 task orders), N0002481C2075 (206 task orders), and N0002479C2654 (202 task orders), alongside a Basic Ordering Agreement N6279377A0001 (252 task orders) for submarine repair supplies and services. Awards per year declined from 41 in 2023 to 1 in 2027 within the source window, reflecting the snapshot nature of the data. Huntington Ingalls faces a recompete cliff of 21 awards worth $4 billion in combined potential value due for completion within the next twenty-four months.

The division's subcontractor base on related Naval Sea Systems Command work includes Curtiss-Wright (turbine, steam system, and propulsion components), Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (spare parts and mechanical hardware), Imia LLC (surface preparation and coating), Carver Pump Company (centrifugal pump systems), Jo-Kell Inc. (electrical components), and Flowserve US (valve operators and actuators), with additional specialty vendors supplying fasteners, gaskets, seals, and connectors across CVN refueling and overhaul programs. Service Contract Inventory reports minimal invoiced revenue above the $150,000 reporting threshold in recent years; the data reflects classified contract activity and product-focused work that falls outside SCI scope rather than a meaningful labor-for-hire footprint.

Huntington Ingalls Newport News Shipbuilding operates from Newport News, Virginia (primary shipbuilding and maintenance headquarters), with significant work-performance locations at San Diego, California (aircraft carrier maintenance), Portsmouth, Virginia (engineering and core team support), and Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (large vertical array installation). The division's strategic posture centers on sustaining the Navy's Nimitz-class carrier fleet, supporting the emerging Gerald R. Ford-class program, and advancing next-generation attack submarine (SSN-X) systems through engineering and design support contracts. As a child entity of Huntington Ingalls Industries, the division leverages the parent company's comprehensive technical capabilities in advanced engineering, component procurement, and logistics for the Navy's most complex nuclear platforms.