General Dynamics-NASSCO Tuesday began constructing the John Glenn, the second of three Mobile Landing Platform ships the yard is building for the Navy. The 765-foot vessels, which represent a new ...

The mobile landing platform Lewis B. Puller (T-MLP-3/T-AFSB-1) successfully completed launch and float-off at the General Dynamics National Steel and Shipbuilding Co. (NASSCO) shipyard on Nov. 6 ...

At the West Coast’s last major shipyard, the action never seems to stop. In one part of the Nassco yard, on the shores of San Diego Bay, the U.S. naval ship Medgar Evers is nearing completion.

Already the country’s fourth-largest defense contractor, General Dynamics after the deal will own three of the nation’s “Big Six” shipyards – NASSCO, Electric Boat and Bath Iron Works.