# Huntington Ingalls Industries America's largest military shipbuilder (spun off from Northrop Grumman in 2011; Newport News and Ingalls yards) — and the American industrial-decay story in corporate form. Ford-class carriers run years behind; destroyers and submarines that took 5–6 years in the 2000s now take 9–10; the binding constraint is skilled labor (welders, electricians, shipfitters), not money, even with a $47.4B FY2026 shipbuilding budget chasing a 355-ship Navy. Mid-2020s fixes include C3 AI scheduling algorithms and distributing work across 25 facilities in 11 states. > Status: stub — expand with the Newport News labor crisis, the carrier/submarine delay ledger, and the shipbuilding-vs-China gap discourse. ## See Also - [[Defense Primes Sector]] - [[General Dynamics]] — the submarine counterpart