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News of the Industry
January 2024
By: AWS

Newport News Shipbuilding Opens Additional Site in Norfolk

HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division, Newport News, Va., has begun production at an additional campus in Norfolk, Va.

The Norfolk campus is located on land leased from Fairlead, a private shipbuilder. NNS shipbuilders have worked at the site for several months constructing steel panels that will eventually make up units of the Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier Enterprise (CVN 80).

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