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Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding Looking At Sharing Work Between Yards

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Thursday, February 14th, 2008

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By Geoff Fein NEWPORT NEWS, Va.--The creation of Northrop Grumman [NOC] Shipbuilding should afford the new enterprise the opportunity to share work among its sites, get a more effective deployment of capital, and take advantage of technologies spread out among the shipyards that could benefit both the Navy and Coast Guard, the sector's president said recently. In January, Northrop Grumman combined its two shipbuilding sectors, Newport News and Ship Systems, into a single operating sector. Two weeks into the venture,…

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