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HII: 70 Percent of CVN-79 Structural Work Finished

Thursday, February 22nd, 2018

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HII: 70 Percent of CVN-79 Structural Work Finished

Screenshot of a Huntington Ingalls Industries video of a superlift section of CVN-79 being hoisted to the ship in dry dock. (Image: HII)

Huntington Ingalls Industries’ [HII] Newport News Shipbuilding has completed building 70 percent of the future John F. Kennedy (CVN-79) aircraft carrier, the company said. The company specified it has built this amount “of the structures necessary to complete” the second Gerald R. Ford-class carrier. It is set to be launched in 2020.HII highlighted CVN-79 is being built with a modular construction technique in mind: small sections are welded together to construct larger sections called superlifts. The superlifts are then pre-outfitted and…

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