Huntington Ingalls Industries
Huntington Ingalls Industries is the largest independent military shipbuilder in the US, spun out from Northrop Grumman in 2011. It operates three segments, two of which are storied shipyards: Ingalls produces non-nuclear-powered ships including amphibious landing ships and Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, while Newport News produces nuclear-powered ships as the only producer of Gerald Ford-class aircraft carriers and a major subcontractor on Virginia- and Columbia-class nuclear submarines. HII shares production of destroyers and nuclear submarines with General Dynamics' Bath Iron Works and Electric Boat shipyards, respectively. The company's mission technologies segment produces uncrewed sea vessels and provides a range of IT and other services to US government agencies.www.hii.com
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Oct 10, 2026
Chris KavasHOST
The, um, but, you know, quality is, is, is, is a major issue.
Chris KavasHOST
And even the, even the experienced shipbuilders, uh, the one, the, the, the, the primes, which are electric boat, uh, G- G- General Dynamics Electric Boat, and Newport News Shipbuilding, HII's company, um, from time to time have major problems, technical problems that are uncovered.
Chris KavasHOST
Uh, that's been a factor f- uh, since they've been building submarines, and it's, uh, it never really totally gone away.
Chris KavasHOST
Uh, the more people you involve in this, the more people have to learn these techniques.
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The President claimed that the United States is ushering a golden age of shipbuilding and that Arsenal 2 would lead the way.
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General Dynamics Electric Boat and HII Newport News Shipbuilding jointly build the Virginia-class submarines, and Arsenal II is positioned to produce complex components and large-scale assemblies.
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Andrew will anticipate the shipyard will create more than 3,000 direct jobs and more than 11,000 indirect jobs at the new facility.
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It will be located in Trade Point Atlantic in Baltimore County, Maryland.
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Some of the biggest defense primes are essentially pure play military businesses.
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Huntington Ingalls, for example, builds aircraft carriers, submarines, and destroyers, and not much else, with something like ninety-five percent of its sales going to government customers, which means the money that goes in tends to stay inside a walled-off military economy.
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But plenty of Europe's biggest manufacturers sit on both sides of the military-civilian line.
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Dassault builds the Rafale fighter, and it builds the Falcon private jet in the same company using overlapping engineering teams.
Christian BroseGUEST
And I think the work that we're already starting to do on things like torpedo tubes, hopefully will make an impact.
Christian BroseGUEST
Hopefully we'll enable our industry partners at Electric Boat and Huntington Ingalls, Newport News, to build more submarines faster.
Christian BroseGUEST
But I don't want anybody to be under the illusion that all of a sudden we're going to jump up to the nation's goal of submarine production.
Christian BroseGUEST
But I think perhaps maybe the better answer to your question is, I think the real goal for us is to continue to push that window of vulnerability to the right.
Sam LaGroneGUEST
And you have these interesting boat builders where they convert their summer house into a shipyard.
Sam LaGroneGUEST
And then they just start building major programs for the Navy in cooperation with giant shipyards like HII.
Sam LaGroneGUEST
So Seronic, which is also a company that's probably best known for their Corsairs, they got some attention in US Fifth Fleet recently where they used three of them to take out a midget submarine in Bandar Abbas in Iran.
Sam LaGroneGUEST
There's footage on that.
Sam LaGroneGUEST
And then one also allegedly rescued two Apache pilots that went down in the Strait of Hormuz.
Sam LaGroneGUEST
So they've gotten some attention, but now they're building a bigger boat called the Marauder, They were one of the ones that were selected.
Sam LaGroneGUEST
You also have HII, best known for building submarines and aircraft carriers and destroyers and amphibs.
Sam LaGroneGUEST
They built a ship called Romulus in cooperation with a yard in New Iberia called Bro Brothers, who are longtime oil and gas ship boat builders, and then a company called Galeano, probably better known as Edison Schwest, which is a company that's in Louisiana, and they do a lot of contract work for the Navy.
Fabian AlefeldHOST
Mm-hmm.
Jason DeichlerGUEST
I mean, you can see recently in the news the announcement of the contract for electric to, boat to go well out into the 2030s, uh, Huntington Ingalls as well, our prime shipyards, to build new construction.
Jason DeichlerGUEST
There's an absolute investment.
Jason DeichlerGUEST
We started our conversation talking about the need and why submarines and why they're important to nuclear competitors.
Vago MuradianHOST
Uh, it is, um, but, you know, and it's, it's, uh, fascinating.
Vago MuradianHOST
Uh, HII, uh, has, uh, the, uh, shipbuilder school that they have, highly competitive program for folks to get into to build, uh, the kind of skills, uh, skilled workforce you need to build, um, sophisticated warships, and many of those skills are the same skill sets you need for heavy plate, uh, you know, high quality, uh, uh, welding.
Vago MuradianHOST
Obviously, you can automate a lot of it.
Vago MuradianHOST
By the way, what is the role of automation in the new armored vehicle industry? Um, because I know that on the Rheinmetall side of it, right, the German side of the, uh, company, uh, really prides itself on a degree of automation and robotization in order to be able to produce, uh, vehicles as economically and to a higher, uh, to as high a quality spec, uh, as possible.
Patrick MalcorGUEST
Castellion is, uh, only been ar- they've only existed for four years.
Patrick MalcorGUEST
They're now valued $13 billion more than Huntington Ingalls shipmaker.
Jake FrazerHOST
Wow.
Patrick MalcorGUEST
They have gone from a startup to engineering and design to a program of record for a hypersonic missile in less than four years, right? And, and so that effect of completely new programs, you know, you know, the Blackbeard hypersonic missile is a program that you never heard of.
Ron EpsteinPANELIST
There was some stuff that did a little bit better.
Ron EpsteinPANELIST
Huntington Ingalls was up almost 5%.
Ron EpsteinPANELIST
And then, you know, probably the worst performer on the week was Northrop Grumman down about 5.5%.
Ron EpsteinPANELIST
And that was largely on the FAXX decision where I think the consensus view, and it's interesting how consensus is frequently wrong in these decisions, was that Northrop Grumman had it, and they didn't.
Jennifer ParkerHOST
They've selected three companies to do this, which is interesting.
Jennifer ParkerHOST
So Galliano Marine Services, HII and Saronic.
Jennifer ParkerHOST
technologies, which is not normally a shipbuilding partner for the US.
Jennifer ParkerHOST
They've come up developing USVs.
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