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Huntington Ingalls Industries
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Huntington Ingalls builds US aircraft carriers and submarines at Newport News. Naval-architect wage settlements in the contractor case received preliminary approval and are not final.
Overview
Newport News Shipbuilding, part of Huntington Ingalls, is the US yard that builds nuclear aircraft carriers and that shares submarine construction with Electric Boat. Carrier design work does not have a second domestic yard to move to.
Naval architects alleged that contractors suppressed wages for that specialty. Settlements in the case received preliminary approval on 17 September 2026, and Huntington Ingalls is among the contractor settlements.
Preliminary approval is not the last step. A final order is still required before those wage settlements are done.
Competition footprint
Newport News is a single-yard labor market for carrier work, with submarine design overlapping Electric Boat.
The preliminary wage settlements cover several contractors and still await final approval.
Hull contracts with the Navy are separate from the pay of the architects who design the ships.
Consumer & business angle
Carrier and submarine designers at Newport News are the workers in the preliminary settlement.
General Dynamics and CACI are other contractors in the same preliminary posture, each still short of final approval.
What to watch
- Whether the naval-architect settlements receive final approval.
- How the class treats Newport News architects versus other yards.
Markets
aircraft carriers · submarine construction · naval architect labor
Also known as: hii, newport news shipbuilding, huntington ingalls