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 ...

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