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Long-term and long-range.
It works for our biggest projects and it works for your career. Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding continues to win large-scale projects that keep the yards humming with high-quality work for engineers, designers, trades professionals, and support personnel. It’s stimulating and rewarding work that’ll make you and your family proud, year after year.
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DDG 1000 will be the Navy’s next-generation multi-mission destroyer.
It will be the first in a class of the U.S. Navy’s multi-mission surface combatants
tailored for littoral, air, and subsurface warfare. DDG 1000’s affordable and flexible
design, unmatched stealth, and precision volume strike capability make this ship an important
asset to U.S. warfighters. The DDG 1000 will be capable of up to 30 knots with a crew of 142,
including 28 in its aviation detachment. The destroyer will feature advanced power, weaponry,
and aviation systems.
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Northrop Grumman Corporation continues work on Kidd (DDG 100), the U.S.
Navy’s newest Aegis-guided missile destroyer. Two other ships have
borne the name Kidd. The Fletcher-class destroyer, DD 661, was in service
from 1943–1974, and is now a floating museum in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
The Kidd-class destroyer, DDG 993, was also built by Northrop Grumman
Shipbuilding and was delivered to the Navy in 1981. DDG 993 served until
1998. This ship is the 24th Arleigh Burke–class destroyer built
by Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding.
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LHA 6 is a next-generation amphibious ship with enhanced aviation capabilities. It will be able to
accomplish many of the same warfare and humanitarian missions demonstrated and expected of LHA- and
LHD-class ships. It will assume the role as the centerpiece of the Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG).
LHA 6 has a significantly enhanced aviation capability by way of an enlarged hangar deck,
expanding aviation maintenance facilities, increasing stowage for aviation parts and support
equipment, and increasing aviation fuel capacity. |
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Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding is building the U.S. Navy’s
LPD 17 San Antonio Class, the newest addition to the Navy’s
21st Century amphibious assault force. The 684-foot-long,
105-foot-wide transport dock ships are used to transport
and land Marines and their equipment using embarked air
cushion or conventional landing craft, as well as amphibious
assault vehicles, augmented by a variety of aircraft.
The ships feature many revolutionary design innovations,
including enhanced war fighting and survivability capabilities,
improved command and control capabilities, stealthy design
elements, and several quality of life improvements, including
sit-up berths. Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding will build
at least nine LPD ships, and has already delivered the
first two ships in the program to the U.S. Navy—USS
San Antonio (LPD 17), which is homeported in Norfolk,
Va., and USS New Orleans (LPD 18), homeported in San Diego.
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Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding has contracts to build 28 Aegis-guided missile
destroyers. These ships, the “bodyguards” of the U.S. Navy, are equipped to conduct
long-term combat operations from the sea. The ships serve as escorts to Navy and
Marine Corps amphibious forces and can conduct a variety of operations, from
peacetime presence and crisis management to sea control and power projection.
Aegis destroyers are capable of fighting air, surface, and subsurface battles
simultaneously. The ship contains myriad offensive and defensive weapons designed
to support maritime defense needs well into the 21st century. Among them is the MK
41 Vertical Launching System, which fires a combination of missiles that can target
other ships, planes and missiles, and even submarines.
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The Integrated Deepwater Systems contract was awarded to Integrated Coast Guard Systems (ICGS), a joint venture of equal partnership established by Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman. Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman have been partners on the Deepwater effort since the beginning, formally establishing ICGS in June 2001.
At full implementation, the interoperable system will comprise three classes of advanced cutters and associated smaller boats, a new fixed-wing manned aircraft fleet, a combination of new and upgraded helicopters, and both cutter-based and land-based unmanned aerial vehicles. Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding is presently building National Security Cutters, which are the centerpiece of the Deepwater program. At 421 feet long, these ships will prove to be the most capable and technically advanced class of cutters in existence today.
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The multipurpose amphibious assault ship LHD 8 is the latest of the Wasp-Class ships to be built at Northrop Grumman. In wartime, these ships are capable of deploying large numbers of troops and equipment to assault enemy-held beaches. In times of peace, these ships have ample space for noncombatant evacuations and other humanitarian missions.
The LHD 8 is equipped with a 13,600-square-foot well deck, which opens to the sea to release landing equipment such as the LCAC, a large hovercraft designed to carry large equipment, and the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle, a light-armored, heavily armed vehicle that can carry troops from ship to shore and conduct missions well inland. Helicopters, Harrier jets, and Osprey (MV-22) tilt-rotor aircraft can also be lifted from the LHD 8 hangar deck onto its flight deck to provide close air support.
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Michelle
Composites Foreman |
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| “As an employee hired directly out of the Navy,
and being a single parent I found it difficult to
decide exactly which career path to take next.
The ship-building industry allowed me the
opportunity to explore my options. It allowed me
to decide which professional paths would be of
interest to me.” |
Read more about Michelle and other
employee testimonials. |
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