The U.S. Navy has awarded a billion-dollar contract to Northrop Grumman Ship Systems for the construction of a new amphibious transport ship and materials and labor to support another, U.S. Sen. Trent Lott announced.
Lott said in a Monday news release that the work will be done at Northrop Grumman’s subsidiary Ingalls Operations in Pascagoula, Miss., and the company’s Avondale yard in New Orleans.