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 ...

San Diego shipbuilder General Dynamics NASSCO has notified nearly 1,500 workers that they could be out of a job next month. The shipbuilder, however, says it anticipates letting go of closer to ...

Sparks splash against the floors of General Dynamics-NASSCO’s training stalls. Behind bulky masks and hard hats that aren’t quite broken in, fledgling welders fuse themselves into the industry ...

New Berlin-based Nassco Inc., a provider of janitorial and packaging supplies, has acquired Hartland-based Managed Packaging Systems. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Managed Packaging ...

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) -- San Diego shipbuilder General Dynamics NASSCO began building the first of six new ships for the U.S. Navy, and says it expects to begin hiring after New Year's Day. In a ...

SAN DIEGO, Oct. 15 (UPI) --General Dynamics NASSCO has begun construction of the second Expeditionary Base Mobile ship for the U.S. Navy. When completed, the ship will be 784 feet long ...

That shipbuilder is the National Steel and Shipbuilding Company in San Diego—universally known as NASSCO—which is a unit of defense contractor General Dynamics (a contributor to my think tank).

New Berlin-based Nassco Inc. has acquired of Messner Inc. of Madison. Messner began in 1941as the Refrigeration Equipment Co. In 1959, the company changed its name to Messner Inc., becoming a ...

Another giant Navy oiler named for a civil rights icon — the future USNS Sojourner Truth — was christened and launched Saturday night at the General Dynamics NASSCO shipyard in Barrio Logan.

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.

SAN DIEGO — General Dynamics’ NASSCO shipyard is nearing the end of its Expeditionary Sea Base shipbuilding program, which has been extended multiple times due to high demand. It’s also ...