Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII] Newport News Shipbuilding is the midst of making improvements to its yard to support work on the Ford-class aircraft carrier and the Virginia-class and Ohio replacement submarines, but if the Navy continues procuring attack submarines at a two-per-year pace, the company will need to make additional investments, executives told Defense Daily in April.The Navy’s current program of record would slow Virginia-class submarine construction to one per year during years when an Ohio replacement sub also is…
