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Collis Potter Huntington (October 22, 1821 – August 13, 1900) [2] was an American industrialist and railway magnate. He was one of the Big Four of western railroading (along with Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins, and Charles Crocker) who invested in Theodore Judah's idea to build the Central Pacific Railroad as part of the first U.S. transcontinental railroad. [3]
Huntington Ingalls Industries. Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc. ( HII) is the largest military shipbuilding company in the United States as well as a provider of professional services to partners in government and industry. HII, ranked No. 375 on the Fortune 500, was formed on 31 March 2011, as a divestiture from Northrop Grumman. [ 5][ 6]
In 1938, Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation was founded by Robert Ingersoll Ingalls Sr. (1882–1951) of Birmingham, Alabama, on the east bank of the Pascagoula River in Mississippi. [2] Ingalls was located where the Pascagoula River runs into the Gulf of Mexico.
Newport News Shipbuilding ( NNS ), a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries, is the sole designer, builder, and refueler of aircraft carriers and one of two providers of submarines for the United States Navy. Founded as the Chesapeake Dry Dock and Construction Co. in 1886, Newport News Shipbuilding has built more than 800 ships, including ...
Huntington Ingalls shares are soaring this morning, buoyed by a positive report on how Q4 earnings surged at the tail end of 2013. Expected to report a $1.19 per share profit on revenues of $1.75 ...
He died on July 12, 1951, in Birmingham. [11] His son Robert Ingersoll Ingalls Jr. (1906–1968) inherited 90% of the company. [7] [12] He sold Ingalls Industries to Litton Industries in 1961, which was ultimately purchased by Northrop Grumman in 2001. [5] He was also a yachtsman, who owned the yacht Rhonda III. [12]
The New York Times suggested Huntington Ingalls Industries had used the Hudson Institute to enhance the company's argument for more nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, at a cost of US$11 billion each. The Times alleged that a former naval officer was paid by Hudson to publish an analysis endorsing more funding.
As of April 2022, he was chairman of Huntington Ingalls Industries, the largest military shipbuilding company in the United States. [6] In mid-January 2024, shortly after the high-profile Alaska Airlines 1282 mid-air door plug incident on a Boeing 737 MAX , Boeing appointed Adm Donald as special advisor to help investigate its quality ...