In a ceremony on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas B. Modly announced the fourth Ford-class aircraft carrier (CVN 81) will be named after Doris Miller, an African-American sailor whose actions during the Dec. 7, 1941, attack here earned him a Navy Cross for valor in combat.

On Dec. 7, 2019, Huntington Ingalls Industries celebrated the christening of the U.S. Navy’s newest aircraft carrier, which is named after the 35th U.S. president, John F. Kennedy

Huntington Ingalls industries began flooding the dry dock at its Newport News Shipbuilding division in preparation for John F. Kennedy’s (CVN 79) christening in December.

America’s aircraft carriers are an elite fighting force – and hard to attack. Read Loren Thompson’s latest on why our aircraft carriers are not vulnerable.

Newport News, VA– USS George Washington (CVN 73) has completed the dry dock portion of her refueling and complex overhaul (RCOH) at Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Newport News Shipbuilding …