This exclusive Cogs of War interview is with Eric Chewning, the executive vice president of maritime systems and corporate strategy at HII. As HII is America’s largest and one of its oldest military shipbuilders, we asked him to share his thoughts on maritime startups, reindustrialization policy, and more.Shipbuilding has been slow to adopt AI and other automated tools in comparison to other manufacturing industries. What cultural shifts inside a century-old yard are the hardest to drive when adopting new design/manufacturing tools?While HII has been using advanced automation to accelerate production in our shipyards for years, shipbuilding use cases have beenThe post The Next Transformation of U.S. Shipbuilding appeared first on War on the Rocks.