Supercarrier 2015: How To Build the World's Most Powerful Warship

Ship architects in Virginia step into virtual-reality blueprints to perfect the design of the U.S. Navy’s first new carrier class in 40 years. Working in 3D reduces errors and oversights on a $14 billion project.

From Popular Mechanics:

To design the Navy's new Ford-class aircraft carrier, architects rely on virtual reality to shape 54,000 tons of steel into the world's most powerful warship. Here's how they do it.

The first pieces of the U.S. Navy’s newest class of aircraft carrier—meant to be the cornerstone of American military sea power over the next hundred years—lie in the open air of a shipyard in Virginia. A misting rain is falling on the jumbled field of steel bulkheads, stacks of pipe and 200-ton sections of hull. It’s as if some gargantuan child broke apart his model ship and scattered the pieces on the ground.

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My Comment: A fascinating read .... the future is software.