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Ingalls Shipbuilding Enthusiastic for Additional Amphibious Shipbuilding Opportunities

Valerie Insinna

Friday, April 29th, 2016

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Ingalls Shipbuilding Enthusiastic for Additional Amphibious Shipbuilding Opportunities

The USS John P. Murtha (LPD 26) during acceptance trials in 2016. (Photo by Lance Davis/HII)

The House Armed Services Committee (HASC) wants to Navy to get a move on with amphibious shipbuilding, with its seapower subcommittee including in its portion of the defense authorization bill an additional $856 million to either accelerate the next generation amphibious ship program or to build another San Antonio-class (LPD 17) amphibious transport dock. Either prospect is good news for Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII] Ingalls Shipbuilding, the maker of the San Antonio-class and one of the competitors for the new…

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