America’s largest military shipbuilder HII and enterprise AI software company C3 AI have announced an expanded strategic partnership aimed at accelerating shipbuilding throughput through artificial intelligence implementation at HII’s Newport News and Ingalls shipbuilding divisions.
The collaboration builds upon a successful six-month initial deployment at Ingalls Shipbuilding that demonstrated significant schedule performance improvements by using complex algorithms to optimize work schedules.
“Increasing shipbuilding throughput is a critical priority for HII and the U.S. Navy,” said HII CEO Chris Kastner. “We’re proud to partner with C3 AI to leverage data and digital capabilities like artificial intelligence in the urgent work of delivering ships to the U.S. Navy.”…