If an aircraft carrier is diplomacy forged in steel, that diplomacy is built in Virginia’s shipyards, through welds, schedules and skilled hands that bring it to life.

Earlier this month at Naval Station Norfolk, President Donald Trump stood between the USS Harry S. Truman and USS Kearsarge for the U.S. Navy’s 250th anniversary . It was a reminder that in Hampton Roads, sea power is measured in shift changes, steel, welds and delivery dates.

An aircraft carrier has been called “100,000 tons of diplomacy,” a phrase often attributed to former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. That diplomacy is designed, built and refueled in Virginia, at Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Newport News Shipbuilding, the nation’s sole builder and refueler of aircraft carriers and its largest industrial

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