Newport News Shipbuilding has selected Lockheed Martin as its warfare systems integrator for the as-yet unnamed CVN-77, the Navy's newest nuclear aircraft carrier, the company announced yesterday in a statement. The selection decision comes out of a nine-month competition conducted by Newport News under a CVN-77 advance-planning contract awarded by the Navy in October 1998, the company said. Lockheed Martin and Raytheon both competed for the contract. Newport News' Future Carrier Programs Director Irwin Edenzon said CVN-77 was the "first...
