U.S. Navy Shipbuilder Bets On Composites
By Michael Fabey .
The sign outside the Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) Composites Facility in Gulfport, Miss., states the company’s optimism about the potential for advanced materials in U.S. Navy shipbuilding: “Composites, the Wave of the Future.”
No other facility produces composite ship structures that are similar in size and complexity to those fabricated in the ...