
A top official at Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII] said the company is working with the Navy to finish remaining challenges to complete and turn over the delay-plagued weapons elevators for the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) aircraft carrier. Jennifer Boykin, president of Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS), told reporters on Thursday that the 11 advanced weapons elevators (AWE) that will be on each Ford-class carriers are one of the most advanced technologies being incorporated into them. “One is turned over to…