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Newport News Anticipates Big Savings From CVN-80 Digital Design

Valerie Insinna

Tuesday, May 17th, 2016

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Newport News Anticipates Big Savings From CVN-80 Digital Design

The Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) after launching in 2012. Photo: Huntington Ingalls Industries

Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII] Newport News Shipbuilding plans to use digital-only blueprints for the USS Enterprise (CVN-80), an investment that the company hopes will save more than 15 percent, a company executive said Tuesday.Matt Mulherin, corporate vice president of HII and president of Newport News Shipbuilding, called the technology “a gamechanger.” Instead of working from paper blueprints, employees would be issued an iPad every day containing design information related to the day’s work, he said.“We’ll have delivered the material to…

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