VIDEO RELEASE--Huntington Ingalls Industries Completes 70 Percent of the Structural Work on the Future Aircraft Carrier John ...
February 22 2018 - 11:00AM
Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) announced today that its
Newport News Shipbuilding division has built 70 percent of the
structures necessary to complete the nuclear-powered aircraft
carrier John F. Kennedy (CVN 79).
Like its predecessor, the first-in-class USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN
78), Kennedy is being built with a modular construction technique
where smaller sections of the ship are welded together to form
larger structures called superlifts. The superlifts are
pre-outfitted and hoisted into Dry Dock 12—where the ship is being
built—by the company’s 1,050-metric ton gantry crane.
Shipbuilders have successfully erected 317 lifts since the
ship’s keel was laid in August 2015. Kennedy is on track to be
completed with 447 total lifts.
The recent 806-metric ton superlift consisted of 17 individual
units and was about 171 feet long and about 92 feet wide. The
structure comprises berthing areas, electrical equipment rooms and
workshops and took 18 months to build.
A video and photos of the superlift are available at:
https://newsroom.huntingtoningalls.com/releases/aircraft-carrier-jfk-structural-milestone.
“This superlift is in the forward part of the ship, about
halfway between the bow and midship,” said Mike Butler, program
director of CVN 79. “It represents one of the key build strategy
changes for Kennedy: building superlifts that are larger and more
complete before they are erected on the ship. We are pleased with
how construction on the Kennedy is progressing, and we look forward
to additional milestones as we inch closer to christening of the
ship.”
Kennedy is scheduled to launch in 2020.
Huntington Ingalls Industries is America’s largest military
shipbuilding company and a provider of professional services to
partners in government and industry. For more than a century, HII’s
Newport News and Ingalls shipbuilding divisions in Virginia and
Mississippi have built more ships in more ship classes than any
other U.S. naval shipbuilder. HII’s Technical Solutions division
provides a wide range of professional services through its Fleet
Support, Integrated Missions Solutions, Nuclear &
Environmental, and Oil & Gas groups. Headquartered in Newport
News, Virginia, HII employs nearly 38,000 people operating both
domestically and internationally. For more information, visit:
- HII on the web: www.huntingtoningalls.com
- HII on Facebook:
www.facebook.com/HuntingtonIngallsIndustries
- HII on Twitter: twitter.com/hiindustries
Contact:
Duane BourneDuane.A.Bourne@HII-co.com(757) 380-3581
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