The Navy has awarded Huntington Ingalls Industries contracts totaling $4.3 billion to continue work on the Navy's second Ford-class aircraft carrier, the future John F. Kennedy, the Pentagon announced June 5. HII's Newport News shipyard this week won the much-anticipated $3.4 billion primary construction contract the company, Navy and Office of the Secretary of Defense have been wrangling over for almost two years, according to a June 5 statement. On top of the detailed design and construction (DD&C) contract, HII...
