Posted on November 12, 2025
Ingalls Shipbuilding will divide orders between Galveston and Port Arthur.
Besides the Arctic icebreaking ships it will soon begin manufacturing, Gulf Copper & Manufacturing Corporation has landed another sizable defense contract, the company announced Monday.
Located on Galveston’s Pelican Island, Gulf Copper announced that it has expanded its agreement with Mississippi-based Ingalls Shipbuilding, the shipbuilding division of Huntington Ingalls Industries, to build additional structural units for the U.S. Navy’s Flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyers.
The work will be distributed between Gulf Copper’s Galveston and Port Arthur facilities, the company announced in a news release. Terms of the deal were not announced.
Named the World War II-era admiral and later Chief of Naval Operations, the Arleigh Burke destroyers use the Aegis Combat System, which employs radar and computers to guide the ship’s weaponry. Each one carries more than 90 missiles, including surface-to-air and ship-to-ship missiles, Tomahawk land missiles, and anti-submarine rockets and helicopters.
The new destroyer contract will be divided between Gulf Copper’s Galveston and Port Arthur facilities, the company announced Monday.
Huntington, also known as HII, is Mississippi’s largest manufacturing employer. Its Pascagoula shipyard produces nearly 70 percent of the Navy’s surface fleet, including the America class large-deck amphibious ships and the San Antonio class amphibious assault ships.
