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NN Shipbuilding's carrier launch delay won't increase cost
The Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier is rescheduled for a launch in November instead of July as originally planned, the Daily Press reported. The Navy and Newport News Shipbuilding had originally planned for a July launch but more time is needed to build...
Tags: Newport News Shipbuilding, Shipbuilding, Manufacturing and Engineering, Gerald Ford, John F. Kennedy
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Huntington Ingalls sees growth despite challenges
Huntington Ingalls Industries, which owns Newport News Shipbuilding, is focused on carrying out several important contracts. Huntington Ingalls made its annual presentation to investors in Pascagoula, Miss., on Wednesday. A year ago, the company was...
Tags: Newport News Shipbuilding, Abraham Lincoln, Huntington Ingalls Industries
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Petters bullish on 2013 for Huntington Ingalls
With two years under his belt at the helm of Huntington Ingalls Industries, Mike Petters offered a sunny take on the Newport News company's future Wednesday. Petters, president and CEO of the United States' largest shipbuilding company, made an annual...Tags: Newport News Shipbuilding, Abraham Lincoln, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Manufacturing and Engineering, Shipbuilding
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Forbes presses Navy on shipbuilding plan
The automatic budget cuts under sequestration have focused attention on many important details of military budgeting. How long are the furloughs? What will happen to on-base services like child care? Others are looking at longer-term questions apart...Tags: Ecosystems, Budget Control Act of 2011, Manufacturing and Engineering, Weather, POLITICO LLC
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Flag Officer Announcements
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced this week that President Obama had nominated the following Navy captains for rear admiral, lower half. -- Capt. William J. Galinis, currently serving as commanding officer, Norfolk Ship Support Activity. --...Tags: Barack Obama, George H.W. Bush, Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Expensive F-35 Fighter At Risk Of Budget 'Death Spiral'
It's called the "death spiral," and America's newest warplane, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, is in danger of falling into it before the plane has even gone into service. The term - recently invoked by top brass involved in the F-35 program - refers...
Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, U.S. Department of Defense, Turkey, Lockheed Martin Corp., Aerospace Manufacturing
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How budget cuts could affect you
Government agencies are already taking steps to comply with automatic spending cuts that took effect March 1. Some examples: ___ AIRCRAFT CARRIER One of the Navy's premiere warships, the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman, sits pierside in...Tags: Barack Obama, Government Health Care, Job Layoffs, Illegal Immigrants, Unemployment
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Obama: Sequestration demands a compromise
President Barack Obama made a late appeal for compromise to stave off across-the-board cuts Tuesday in a speech at Newport News Shipbuilding. He called sequestration – the budgetary term for the cuts – an ugly word, and an even uglier...
Tags: Barack Obama, Budgets and Budgeting, Elections, Abraham Lincoln, Budget Control Act of 2011
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Uncertainty reigns near Newport News shipyard, site of Obama sequestration speech on Tuesday
Shipbuilding and military spending permeate Newport News and Hampton Roads. In this city and region, which will play backdrop for President Barack Obama's speech Tuesday on the impact of sequestration, anxiety over the potential cuts is palpable in...
Tags: Barack Obama, Employees, U.S. Department of Defense, Abraham Lincoln, Career and Workplace
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USS Harry S. Truman makes news -- in Russia
Americans aren't the only ones interested in what happens to Norfolk-based aircraft carriers. The Voice of Russia has noted how budget cuts have cancelled the combat deployment of the USS Harry S. Truman. It quotes a story from The Telegraph and notes...Tags: Russia, Barack Obama, Harry S. Truman, U.S. Department of Defense, Armed Forces
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Rep. Randy Forbes visiting shipyards in Hampton Roads
Eyeing budget problems galore, Rep. Randy Forbes, R-Chesapeake, is visiting six shipyards in Hampton Roads today and Friday to gauge how deep cuts in defense spending will hurt business. He'll stop at Newport News Shipbuilding and five shipyards in...
Tags: Newport News Shipbuilding, Norfolk (Norfolk, Virginia), BAE Systems Plc., Hampton Roads, Shipbuilding
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Column: Some questions for Hagel
Senate hearings on the nomination of Chuck Hagel to be defense secretary will be a distinctive Washington entertainment, a donnybrook without drama. He should be confirmed: Presidents are due substantial deference in selecting Cabinet members because they...Tags: Barack Obama, U.S. Department of Defense, Leon Panetta, Israel, Wars and Interventions
May 7, 2013
|Story| Daily Press
May 2, 2013
|Story| Daily Press
May 2, 2013
|Story| Hampton Roads Daily Press
Apr 24, 2013
|Story| Hampton Roads Daily Press
Mar 27, 2013
| Daily Press
Mar 15, 2013
|Story| Reuters
Mar 11, 2013
|Story| Petoskey News
Feb 26, 2013
|Story| Hampton Roads Daily Press
Feb 26, 2013
|Story| Hampton Roads Daily Press
Mar 4, 2013
| Daily Press
Jan 31, 2013
| Daily Press
Jan 16, 2013
|Story| Aberdeen News
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