NGSS's Dur: 'We Are One Shipyard'

摘要

When Northrop Grumman Ship Systems (NGSS) was formed in 2001 from the purchase of Litton's two shipyards — Avondale Shipyard in New Orleans and Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Miss. — the yards had distinct employees, expertise and clients. Avondale built auxiliary, sealift and medium-size amphibious ships; Ingalls built destroyers and large-deck amphibious ships. For a while, each yard maintained a distinct identity within NGSS, but that has now changed. "We are no longer two shipyards. We are one shipyard," said Philip Dur, president of NGSS. As the business sector reorganizes, he discarded the old distinction between Avondale and Ingalls as "anachronistic."