As a leading defence and security company, we offer solutions that range from the depths of the oceans to high in the sky, on land and in cyberspace, to keep people and society safe.
Empowered by our 22,000 talented people, we constantly push the boundaries of technology to create a safer, more sustainable and more equitable world. We design, manufacture and maintain advanced systems in aeronautics, weapons, command and control, sensors and underwater systems.
We are headquartered in Sweden and have major operations all over the world and are part of the domestic defence capability of several nations.
For 137 years, the ships built at Newport News Shipbuilding, like the American shipbuilders who built them, have served our nation in peace and war, in times of adversity and in times of abundance. Our legacy of “Always Good Ships,” includes the design, construction, overhaul and repair of more than 800 ships for the U.S. Navy and commercial customers.
Today, Newport News Shipbuilding, a division of HII, is the nation’s sole designer, builder and refueler of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and one of only two shipyards capable of designing and building nuclear- powered submarines. We also provide fleet services for naval ships.
We are the largest industrial employer in Virginia, employing more than 25,000 people, many of whom are third- and fourth-generation shipbuilders.
Fincantieri is one of the world’s largest shipbuilding groups and number one by diversification and innovation. And we bring future on board. We are the change we want to bring to the global Industry. We are leader in the realization and life cycle management of all high value-added sectors: cruise ship, naval and offshore vessels and a reference player in all high-tech shipbuilding industry’s sectors, ship repairs and conversions, systems and components production and after-sales services.
Headquartered in Trieste (Italy), our Group has built more than 7,000 vessels in over 230 years of maritime history. With almost 20,000 employees, of whom more than 7,800 in Italy, 90.000 job roles, 18 shipyards in 4 continents, today Fincantieri is the leading Western shipbuilder. We have among our clients the major cruise operators, the Italian and the U.S. Navy, in addition to several foreign navies, and we are partner of some of the main European defense companies within supranational programmes.