
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…