Overview

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, and in November 2001, became a sector of Northrop Grumman Corporation.

With vast facilities located on more than 550 acres along two miles of waterfront in Newport News, Virginia, the Newport News sector employs more than 21,000 people, many of whom are third and fourth generation shipbuilders.

Facts:

• Sole supplier of U.S. Navy aircraft carriers, the world’s largest warships.
• Builder of 25 of the Navy attack submarines in use today—and 11 of the nation’s 12 active aircraft carriers.
• Home of the Western Hemisphere’s largest dry dock and crane.
• Exclusive provider of refueling services for nuclear-powered aircraft carriers.
• Largest industrial employer in Virginia.
• Largest non-governmental provider of fleet maintenance services to the Navy.