Integrated Digital Shipbuilding

An Integrated Digital Enterprise

HII uses Digital Shipbuilding (iDS) — laser scanning, augmented reality, modeling and simulation, and additive manufacturing – to transition from two-dimensional paper-based instructions to digital formats to increase efficiency, safety and affordability. HII is using iDS for construction of the aircraft carrier Enterprise (CVN 80), which will be the first ship built completely paperless, and the new class of ballistic submarines, the Columbia class.