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	NDM Article - New Navy Flattop Heralds Next Carrier Class
		The Newport News Shipbuilding company, of Newport News, Va., is under contract with the U.S. Navy to begin the design process for a new nuclear aircraft carrier-the last of the Nimitz class of ships, intended to last through the better part of the century ahead.
		Newport News is the Navy's prime contractor for CVN 77.
		Newport News is exploring the use of air-blown fiber optic cable to replace a carrier's hand-strung copper electrical wiring, making replacement easier and less expensive.
	www.nationaldefensemagazine.org /issues/2000/Mar/New_Navy.htm (2486 words)

	Company News On Call
		The acquisition, approved by the boards of directors of both companies, is to be accomplished through a cash tender offer for all of Newport News Shipbuilding's publicly held outstanding shares at a price of $67.50 per share.
		Newport News Shipbuilding, headquartered in Newport News, Virginia, designs and constructs nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and submarines for the U.S. Navy and provides life-cycle services for ships in the Navy fleet.
		Issuers of news releases and not PR Newswire are solely responsible for the accuracy of the content.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=105&STORY=/www/story/04-25-2001/0001477452 (794 words)

	ipedia.com: Newport News Shipbuilding Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company is the largest privately owned shipyard in the United States and the only one that can build Nimitz -class supercarriers.
		Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company is the largest privately owned shipyard in the United States and the only one that can build Nimitz-class supercarriers.
		It is located in Newport News, Virginia, and often participates in projects with the Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia.
	www.ipedia.com /newport_news_shipbuilding.html (496 words)

	Exposed to Asbestos at Newport News Shipbuilding - Early, Ludwick, Sweeney and Strauss (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Newport News Shipbuilding, first called Chesapeake Dry Dock and Construction Company, was founded in 1886 by Collis Huntington and became famous for the first dry dock in the world.
		The company is the largest non-government-owned shipyard in the U.S. Its main tasks are the design, repair, construction, overhaul, and refueling of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and submarines for the Navy.
		Newport News built 9 of the 12 active carriers in the Navy, including all eight nuclear carriers.
	www.elslaw.com /jobsites_va_newportnews.htm (426 words)

	USS Minnesota (BB-22) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Her keel was laid down by the Newport News Shipbuilding Company of Newport News, Virginia, on 27 October 1903.
		She was launched on 8 April 1905 sponsored by Miss Rose Marie Schaller, and commissioned on 9 March 1907 with Captain J. Hubbard in command.
		Following her shakedown off the New England coast, Minnesota was assigned to duty in connection with the Jamestown Exposition in Jamestown, Virginia, from 22 April to 3 September 1907.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Minnesota_(BB-22) (529 words)

	The Militant - 4/19/99 -- Steelworkers At Newport News Strike
		And it also wants a pledge that the company won't interfere with union organizing attempts at its San Diego shipyard or at Avondale Industries, a Louisiana yard the company is in the process of acquiring.
		The company's plans to increase the costs to workers for health insurance is a sore point for many strikers.
		Newport News Shipbuilding has put in place a 40-person Special Team for "security," armed with clubs and wearing bulletproof vests in anticipation of the strike.
	www.themilitant.com /1999/6315/6315_3.html (1584 words)

	Newport News Shipbuilding -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Still, the company swiftly filled requests for " (A slow cargo ship built during World War II) Liberty ships" that were needed during the war.
		It founded an emergency yard on the banks of the (A river in North Carolina that flows southeast to the Atlantic Ocean at Cape Fear) Cape Fear River and launched its first Liberty ship before the end of 1941, building 239 in all.
		In the (The decade from 1980 to 1989) 1980s, NNS produced a variety of Navy products, including (additional info and facts about Nimitz-class nuclear aircraft carriers) Nimitz-class nuclear aircraft carriers and (additional info and facts about Los Angeles-class nuclear attack submarines) Los Angeles-class nuclear attack submarines.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/n/ne/newport_news_shipbuilding.htm (570 words)

	Newport News
		Newport News Shipbuilding, which became an independent company 11 December 1996, is the largest non-government-owned shipyard in the United States, as measured by each of revenues, size of facilities, and number of employees.
		Newport News built nine of the 12 active aircraft carriers in the US fleet, including all eight nuclear-powered aircraft carriers.
		The company's principal facilities are located in Newport News, Virginia on approximately 550 acres owned by the Company at the mouth of the James River.
	www.fas.org /man/company/shipyard/newport_news.htm (944 words)

	Flotsam and Jetsam - Library - The Mariners' Museum ~ Newport News, Virginia
		The local Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company (at this time, still controlled by the Huntingtons) provided much engineering and building skills, and by 1933, the Museum was ready to open to the public.
		It was in Newport News that he founded the Chesapeake Dry Dock and Construction Company in 1886 to add shipbuilding to his impressive industrial resume.
		The company later became the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, a leader in the construction of civilian passenger liners and military aircraft carriers.
	www.mariner.org /library/research/flotsam.php (9428 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Swasey and R. Clark are with the Newport News Shipbuilding Company, and not the Newport News Navy Yard.
		The new apparatus which has been ordered for the Gymnasium is as follows: one dozen chest weights, four medicine balls, indoor shot, and a new jumping standard.
		New measuring apparatus will be obtained soon, and physical examinations can be made with greater accuracy than before.
	www-tech.mit.edu /archives/VOL_018/TECH_V018_S0163_P007.txt (501 words)

	Newport News
		Newport News Shipbuilding is a division of Northrop-Grumman, the largest non-government-owned shipyard in the United States, as measured by each of revenues, size of facilities, and number of employees.
		While Newport News stated that a nuclear "monopoly" already exists due to the recent history of Navy approved "teaming" with General Dynamics (the only nuclear capable competitor), many believed that there was national security value for the United States in maintaining, not eliminating, competition.
		Newport News Shipbuilding's shareholders may elect to receive either $67.50 per share in cash or a number of shares of Northrop Grumman common stock designed to provide a value of $67.50.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/facility/newport_news.htm (1574 words)

	DefenseLINK News: Contract Announcements (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		C. Wylie Construction Company, San Diego, California, is being awarded a $13,777,420 fixed-price contract for construction of an oily waste collection and treatment facility at Naval Station, San Diego.
		Newport News Shipbuilding Company, Newport News, Virginia, is being awarded a $118,999,962 modification to previously awarded contract N00024-94-C-2105 to provide FY96 advance planning, design, documentation, engineering, procurement, shipchecks, fabrication, personnel training, and preliminary shipyard work necessary to prepare for the Refueling and Complex Overhaul (RCOH) of USS NIMITZ (CVN 68).
		General Electric Company, Cincinnati, Ohio, is being awarded a $13,985,930 face value increase to a cost plus award fee contract to provide for the CY 1996 Component Improvement Program in support of the F101, F118 and J79 engines applicable to the B- 1B, the F-16, the B-2A, and the F-4 aircraft.
	www.dod.gov /contracts/1996/c050796_ct263-96.html (1087 words)

	Newport News Shipbuilding v. Rowsey (4th Cir. 2002)
		Newport News filed a petition for judicial review of the July 23, 2001 order, arguing the ALJ's decision was automatically affirmed on March 15, 2001 pursuant to the Omnibus Consolidated Rescissions and Appropriations Act of 1996, Pub.
		New- port News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., 8 F.3d 175, 180 (4th Cir.
		Because Newport News is not adversely affected or aggrieved within the meaning of the LHWCA, we decline to review the July 23, 2001 Board order.
	www.admiraltylawguide.com /circt/4throwsey.html (618 words)

	Northrop Grumman Newport News - Fact Sheet - Hoover's
		For the past 40 years, Northrop Grumman Newport News (formerly Newport News Shipbuilding) has been the only builder of the US Navy's aircraft carriers (it's also one of only two nuclear sub builders -- the other is General Dynamics).
		Now a division of Northrop Grumman, the largest naval shipbuilding company in the world (General Dynamics is #2), Newport News builds, maintains, refuels, and repairs nuclear aircraft carriers and submarines.
		Newport News was acquired by Northrop Grumman for about $2.6 billion in 2001.
	www.hoovers.com /newport-news/--ID__52848--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml (346 words)

	About USS ALDEBARAN
		The SS Stag Hound was laid down on 28 November 1938 at Newport News, Va., by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock company under a Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 27); launched on 21 June 1939; sponsored by Mrs.
		New places also cropped up on her itinerary - Havannah Harbor at Efate, and Purvis Bay, Tulagi, and Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands.
		She departed Ulithi in company with TU 50.8.5 on May and joined the rest of Task Group (TG) 50.8 at sea.
	home.epix.net /~nooyawka/AF10.htm (1499 words)

	[No title]
		According to an 1897 Newport News register of marriages, William Robertson married Eva Stokes in Newport News on November 24, 1897.
		During the late 1800s, shipbuilding was being revolutionized, as ships began to be built of metal rather than wood.
		A Newport News newspaper obituary for William indicates that William had been ill for several months prior to his death.
	home1.gte.net /vzeotj42/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/robertsongrandfather.doc (889 words)

	Newport News Shipbuilding (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS), with its unique facilities and over 111 years of experience, is widely recognized as an essential national asset that provides critical support for our nation's defenses.
		Located in the heart of Virginia's Hampton Roads, one of the world's best natural harbors, Newport News is the only shipyard that has both the physical capacity and the technical capability to design, integrate, build, repair, overhaul, refuel, and decommission every ship in the U.S. Navy fleet.
		Although the company has constructed many types of ships in its history, Newport News is best known as the country's sole builder of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers.
	www.advisorinsight.com /pub/indexes/400_mi/NNS_mi.htm (588 words)

	Project Liberty Ship
		In Virginia the Newport News Shipbuilding Company, one of the nation's leading builders, was fully engaged on navy contracts and there was no possibility of merchantmen being built on their slips.
		The parent company transferred some of its own personnel to the new yard, these ranging from management to apprentices, but many of the new executives appointed had no shipbuilding knowledge.
		The first ships constructed were dependent upon the parent company for the fabrication of their steel, thus the yard was originally equipped with only a small fabricating shop of its own.
	www.liberty-ship.com /html/yards/ncarsb.html (584 words)

	People's Weekly World Newspaper Online - Virginia shipyard workers score gains (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (PAI) — After six weeks of bargaining, the 8,500 Steel Workers at the nation’s largest shipyard ratified a new 52-month contract on June 9.
		The pact between USWA Local 8888 and Newport News Shipbuilding Company passed by a 1,877-856 margin.
		As Newport News shipyard officials kept a watchful eye from atop a building on the peaceful, chanting, praying and singing workers — many of them African Americans — Thompson added: “This is our work.
	www.pww.org /article/articleprint/5416 (606 words)

	National Liberty Ship Memorial -- S.S. Jeremiah O'Brien -- The Last Liberty
		The new fleet would be made up of fast tankers and three types of freighters (C-1, C-2 and C-3) each powered by economical geared turbines, producing a relatively high sea speed.
		New yards would have to be created in which to build the new ships.
		New organizations developed new techniques, their very lack of preconceived ideas about shipbuilding creating new methods and innovations in an old profession.
	www.ssjeremiahobrien.com /lastliberty.html (2055 words)

	Theodore Roosevelt Departs Newport News Shipbuilding After Overhaul (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		NEWPORT NEWS, Va., July 6, 1998 — The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) departed Newport News Shipbuilding (NYSE: NNS) on July 2, 1998 after a year-long period of maintenance and overhaul work.
		Newport News is also building Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) and performing the refueling and overhaul of Nimitz (CVN 68).
		Newport News Shipbuilding is America’s premier shipbuilding company with annual revenues of approximately $1.7 billion and 18,000 employees.
	www.nn.northropgrumman.com /news/1998/nr980706.html (383 words)

	NEWPORT NEWS SHIPBUILDING A PARTNER IN TANKER DEAL THE PRACTICE, WHICH IS NOT UNCOMMON, COULD RESULT IN THE YARD BUYING ...
		The Peninsula shipbuilding and repair company is an investor in a partnership seeking federal loan guarantees to construct five petroleum product tankers at the shipyard, a yard spokeswoman confirmed Wednesday.
		Those five companies are owned 25 percent by a subsidiary of the Dutch shipping firm Van Ommeren N.V., said Jerri Fuller-Dickseski, Newport News Shipbuilding's spokeswoman.
		But Newport News Shipbuilding's participation as an investor raises the question of why some other investor couldn't be found.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1996/vp960118/01180454.htm (672 words)

	Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.: "The First Year" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 did not create new responsibilities for the major employers in the nation, except, perhaps, in respect to sex discrimination.
		For all sorts of reasons, major segments of business, industry and labor have shown they are anxious to comply with the new law and the national policy it propounds a fair chance for all at a job or a promotion, regardless of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
		But the gates to opportunity have been opened by this new law and the momentum of positive accomplishment will keep Americans moving through theses gates more and more and more as this Commission and this Administration continue to pursue their convictions with dedication and resolve.
	www.eeoc.gov /abouteeoc/35th/voices/roosevelt.html (634 words)

	Aerospace Daily STORY
		Excluding gains and losses from discontinued operations, the company reported earnings of $226 million for the quarter, compared with $195 million a year ago.
		In a conference call with investors and analysts, company Chairman and CEO Kent Kresa said the acquisition of TRW was the "capstone" of efforts to transform the company over the past decade.
		For the year, the company reported a net income of $64 million compared with $427 million in 2001.
	www.aviationnow.com /avnow/news/channel_aerospacedaily_story.jsp?id=news/northrop01293.xml (438 words)

	Company News On Call
		In the agreement, DoJ and DoD said that they will inform the companies of their enforcement intentions regarding the transaction after receiving notification of intent to close.
		Newport News Shipbuilding designs and constructs nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and submarines for the U.S. Navy and provides life-cycle services for ships in the Navy fleet.
		More information about Newport News Shipbuilding is available on the Web at http://www.nns.com.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=105&STORY=/www/story/08-09-2001/0001552233 (425 words)

	Board of Directors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Billig, who is 78 years old, is chairman of the board of Titan and became a director of the Company in 1992.
		He spent 13 of those years as president of Newport News Shipbuilding Company and 14 years at Case Corporation, three of those (1992-94) as president.
		He is also Chairman of the Board of Overseers of the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and serves on the University’s Board of Trustees and the executive committee of Penn Medicine.
	www.titan-intl.com /directors.html (537 words)

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