For more than a century, Northrop Grumman Newport News has designed, built, overhauled and repaired a wide variety of ships for the U.S. Navy and commercial customers. Today, Newport News is the nation's sole designer, builder and refueler of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and one of only two companies capable of designing and building nuclear-powered submarines. The company also provides after-market services for a wide array of naval and commercial vessels.

With vast facilities located on more than 550 acres along two miles of waterfront in Newport News, Virginia, the Newport News sector employs about 19,000 people, many of whom are fourth and fifth generation shipbuilders.

Since 2000, shipyard employees have volunteered their help and expertise to the Monitor recovery project by off-loading artifacts at shipyard piers and docks, constructing conservation tanks at The Mariners' Museum and performing topographical ultrasonic inspections and X-rays of the recovered items. Employees from the sector’s Apprentice School built the full-scale replica of the USS Monitor in 22 steel sections. For more information about this project, please contact the Mariners' Museum.