New Orleans, Louisiana, United StatesUpdated May 2026
Avondale Industries Inc. was a shipbuilding company based in New Orleans, United States, known for building barges, tugs, and cargo ships, and later becoming part of Northrop Grumman Ship Systems.
Northrop Grumman Newport News is the nation's sole designer, builder, and refueler of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and one of two companies capable of designing and building nuclear-powered submarines, also providing after-market services for naval and commercial vessels.
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.
Pascagoula, Mississippi, United StatesUpdated Jul 2006
Northrop Grumman Ship Systems (NGSS), headquartered in Pascagoula, Mississippi, includes the Ingalls Operations and the Full Service Operations, also in Pascagoula, and the Avondale Operations, in New Orleans and Tallulah, Louisiana, and Gulfport, Mississippi. NGSS, which currently employs more than 17,000 shipbuilding professionals, primarily in Mississippi and Louisiana, is one of the nation's leading full service systems companies for the design, engineering, construction, and life cycle support of major surface ships for the U.S. Navy, U.S. Coast Guard and international navies, and for commercial vessels of all types.