Huntington Ingalls Inc.

Huntington Ingalls Inc. Newport News Shipbuilding Division and its parent, Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc., design, build, refuel, and maintain nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and submarines as the U.S. Navy's sole aircraft carrier builder and one of two submarine builders, competing predominantly as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards) on full-and-open Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) procurements with no small business set-aside posture. The division is a for-profit corporate subsidiary headquartered in Newport News, Virginia, with operations spanning ship construction, modernization, lifecycle maintenance, engineering support, and propulsion system work across primary NAICS 336611 (Ship Building and Repairing).

The vendor's customer concentration is nearly total Navy. The Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command anchors the portfolio at 950 awards and $63.16 billion in combined potential value (94% of the total portfolio dollar value), followed by the Department of the Navy United States Fleet Forces Command (Atlantic) with 107 awards and $2.78 billion, and smaller volumes from Naval Supply Systems Command, Pacific Fleet Forces, and other Navy commands. This concentration reflects the specialized nature of nuclear carrier and submarine construction and maintenance, which only Huntington Ingalls can provide.

The vendor holds multiple large indefinite-delivery vehicles: Indefinite Delivery Contract N0002423D4107 ($528 million ceiling, 950 task orders for Planned Incremental Availability and Carrier Incremental Availability planning and execution for San Diego-based aircraft carriers through July 2028); an unnamed $1 billion IDC for backfit installation of large vertical array systems for submarines and related naval vessel services (September 2030 completion); and a $0-ceiling Basic Ordering Agreement for submarine spare parts. Task order activity across these vehicles includes carrier maintenance such as a $60.6 million delivery order for USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) FY25 planned incremental availability growth work (August 2025), a $5.6 million delivery order for advanced planned incremental availability planning on CVN-71 (March 2026), a $373.5 million definitive contract for CVN 68 (USS Nimitz) inactivation and defueling advance planning through October 2027 (March 2025), a $471.97 million definitive contract for Aircraft Carrier Engineering Support (ACES) and Ford Class Design Support (FCDS) through November 2030 (December 2025), and submarine work including a $12.2 million delivery order for next-generation attack submarine horizontal launcher test facility engineering (July 2025). Recent definitive contracts worth $20.97 million and $1.405 billion anchor long-term engineering, propulsion, and refueling support work through 2028 and 2029 respectively.

Activity has declined year over year from 39 awards in 2022 to 7 awards through March 2026, though total potential value in the portfolio remains substantial at $67.56 billion. The vendor faces significant recompete exposure: 26 awards with combined potential value of $9.09 billion complete within the next twenty-four months. Award frequency per fiscal year has dropped from 41 (2023) to 29 (2024) to 24 (2025), signaling portfolio maturation or consolidation into larger task orders rather than growth.

Huntington Ingalls operates as a prime contractor on 100% of recent awards and subcontracts to Electric Boat Corporation, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Advanced Technology International, and specialized suppliers including Curtiss-Wright Corporation (divisions for propulsion and auxiliary systems), Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, and smaller component suppliers on major construction and refueling programs. The vendor does not report Service Contract Inventory invoicing above the $150,000 threshold in the source data; the 23 SCI records in FY2022–FY2024 carry zero invoiced revenue and reflect 3.2 FTEs in FY2022 and zero FTEs in FY2023 and FY2024, indicating that SCI-reportable service contracts represent a negligible portion of the division's federal activity. The portfolio is dominated by firm fixed price and cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery orders for components, cost-plus-incentive contracts for maintenance availabilities, and definitive contracts for multi-year engineering and construction support — all typical of naval shipyard procurement where work is measured in vessel-level scope rather than service labor hours.

The corporate structure includes parent Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc., which also owns subsidiary HII Fleet Support Group LLC (listed multiple times in the source) and holds this Newport News Shipbuilding Division. The parent company and division are inseparable operationally on federal awards: task orders are issued to both parent and subsidiary names interchangeably on NAVSEA vehicle N0002423D4107 and similar vehicles.