Newport News Shipbuilding breaks ground for new facility

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Newport News Shipbuilding breaks ground for new facility
by Richard Tomkins
Newport News, Va. (UPI) Jun 23, 2015

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Newport News Shipbuilding has broken ground for a Joint Manufacturing Assembly Facility that will support the construction of aircraft carriers and submarines.

Initial phases of the facility, due to open in 2017, will feature production bays to improve construction efficiencies under current contracts for the Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier and Virginia-class submarine programs.

"We aren't just breaking ground on a new facility, we're breaking the mold on how we build aircraft carriers and submarines," Newport News Shipbuilding President Matt Mulherin said.

Work at the new facility will bring work indoors and feature multiple worksites, advanced technology, automated equipment, heavyweight cranes, large transportation doors and specialty paint bays.

Newport News Shipbuilding is a subsidiary of Huntington Ingalls Industries, America's largest military shipbuilding company. For more than a century, HII's Newport News and Ingalls shipbuilding divisions in Virginia and Mississippi have built more ships in more ship classes than any other U.S. naval shipbuilder.

Additional details of the facility being build were not disclosed.

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