
Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII] finished installing the last piece of the future aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy’s (CVN-79) flight deck in another construction milestone, the company said Thursday. CVN-79 will be the second of the new Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers being built by HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia. The company installed the upper bow section of the ship as one of the last superlifts placed on the ship. Superlifts are large steel structural units built by HII…