Integrated digital shipbuilding (IDS) is transforming the refueling and complex overhaul (RCOH) program at HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding division.
“This is actually one of the first ships that we’ve had a large presence of integrated digital shipbuilding on the RCOH program,” Jason Ipock, a lead general foreman, said of the aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73) overhaul. “One of the biggest things that we’re seeing from it is that it’s actually taking the way we’ve always done it before, and it’s allowing us to be a little bit more efficient, a little bit more effective, a little bit quicker in our day-to-day operations.”
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