Primary Industries in Virginia Beach
Virginia Beach’s strongest manufacturing sectors — and the precision parts we machine for each.
Defense
Virginia Beach and the Hampton Roads region host the world's largest naval station — Naval Station Norfolk, along with NAS Oceana's fighter wings, Newport News Shipbuilding (Huntington Ingalls) building aircraft carriers and submarines, and BAE Systems' Norfolk Ship Repair.
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Virginia Beach anchors the Hampton Roads aerospace cluster — Naval Air Station Oceana is the Navy's East Coast master jet base for F/A-18 Super Hornets, Naval Station Norfolk hosts the world's largest naval base with carrier aviation maintenance, and Northrop Grumman's Newport News shipyard builds nuclear aircraft carriers that generate decades of aviation support equipment demand. L3Harris, BAE Systems, and Huntington Ingalls Industries complete the defense aerospace ecosystem.
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