NEWPORT NEWS, VA -- Huntington Ingalls is making significant investments at its Newport News Shipbuilding yard here, but the company's chief executive says those efforts reflect an attempt to get ready for the existing plan, not the shipbuilding boost the Trump administration has promoted. Mike Petters told Inside Defense last week Newport News Shipbuilding is at a critical moment, working on the Ford-class aircraft carrier program and Virginia-class submarines and overhauling the Nimitz-class carriers. "All of those programs are programs...
