“What AI allows you to do is optimize for how the work flows through the machine shops, based on prioritization of output and how the different inputs are adjusting,” said Eric Chewning, an HII executive.
“We’re obviously a little different. We buy and build in America,” said HII CEO Chris Kastner.
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SAWS "is an innovative approach that increase wages, accelerates submarine production [and] reduces the cost through the [future years]," said HII CEO Chris Kastner.
The acquisition comes amid a flurry of activities by the Navy and industry to bolster the submarine industrial base.
In an exclusive interview with Breaking Defense, HII boss Chris Kastner said the company views its non-shipbuilding division as a key source of future growth.
The head of a shipbuilding trade association says future delays could provoke layoffs in the industrial base.
Modeling and simulation get an AI upgrade for more realistic training and improved autonomous platforms.
Eric Chewning was previously chief of staff to the defense secretary as well as a deputy assistant secretary for industrial policy.
The Olympic athletes Simon Biles and Katie Ledecky are sponsoring the Enterprise (CVN-80).
Mike Petters, the current CEO of Huntington Ingalls Industries, will become executive vice chairman of the board.