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Ingalls Shipbuilding Enthusiastic for Additional Amphibious Shipbuilding Opportunities

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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