Newport News Shipyard

Core Purpose: To provide the necessary naval assets and defense technology to support national security.

Specific Tasks: The Newport News division is uniquely positioned to design, build and refuel nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and submarines for the U.S. Navy.

Since 1886, the ships built at Newport News Shipbuilding, like the American shipbuilders who built them, have served our nation in peace and war, in times of adversity and times of abundance. Huntington Ingalls Industries's legacy of “Always Good Ships” includes the design, construction, overhaul and repair of hundreds of ships for the U.S. Navy and commercial customers.

Today, NNS, a division of HII, is the nation’s sole designer, builder and refueler of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and one of only two shipyards capable of designing and building nuclear-powered submarines, leveraging our unique expertise in nuclear propulsion, naval design and manufacturing. Newport News Shipyard provides fleet services for our ships worldwide.

Employing more than 11,000 employees, Ingalls Shipbuilding is the largest manufacturing employer in Mississippi and a major contributor to the economic growth of Alabama. For 85 years, Ingalls has designed, built and maintained amphibious ships, destroyers and cutters for the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Coast Guard. The largest supplier of U.S. Navy surface combatants, Ingalls is simultaneously building four classes of ships.

Military bases in close proximity to Huntington Ingalls Industries are Joint Bases Langley-Eustis, Yorktown Naval Weapons Station, Naval Station Norfolk, Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story, Naval Air Station Oceana, Norfolk Naval Shipyard and Portsmouth Naval Hospital.

Huntington Ingalls Industries is headquartered in Newport News, Virginia and operates major shipbuilding facilities in Virginia and Mississippi. HII serves a variety of government, military and commercial clients, both domestically and internationally, with a primary focus on U.S. national defense.

• Corporate Headquarters: Located in Newport News, Virginia.
• Newport News Shipbuilding: Also in Newport News, Virginia, this is the nation's sole designer and builder of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and one of two shipyards that build nuclear-powered submarines.
• Ingalls Shipbuilding: Based in Pascagoula, Mississippi, this division specializes in surface combatants, such as destroyers and amphibious assault ships.

HII is located in the city of Newport News, Virginia and is situated along a two-mile stretch of property on the James River, approximately 79 miles east of Richmond, Virginia, 177 miles south of Washington, D.C., 23 miles from downtown Norfolk, Virginia and 37 miles from Virginia Beach, Virginia. HII is bordered by the James River Bridge to the north and the Monitor-Merrimac Memorial Bridge-Tunnel to its south.

The Newport News Shipyard can be reached via commercial bus lines or through the Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport.

Directions:

• From the East: Take Interstate 64 E to I-664 S toward Downtown Newport News/Suffolk. Take Exit 5, then follow 35th Street to the SUPSHIP Building, Building 2 on your right.
• From the West: Take Interstate 64 W to Exit 264, then merge onto I-664 S toward Downtown Newport News/Suffolk. Take Exit 5, and follow 35th Street to the SUPSHIP Building, Building 2 on your right.
• From the North: Take I-664 N to Exit 5, then follow 35th Street to the SUPSHIP Building, Building 2 on your right.

There is no public transportation on Huntington Ingalls Industries property, however, Hampton Roads Transit is located just outside of the shipyard gates at the corner of 35th Street and Washington Avenue. Transportation is available to and from Huntington Hall Navy Barracks.

For more information on bus routes on the Peninsula, visit the HRT website.

For ships undergoing repairs at Huntington Ingalls, please contact the shipyards operator at 757-380-2000.