PASCAGOULA, Miss. - Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding divisionhere announced May 27 that Brian Blanchette has been promoted to VP of quality and engineering. He will be responsible for the management/oversight of the division’s quality program, and ship design, engineering, integrated logistics support and planning yard engineering efforts. He will relieve Dave Belanger upon his retirement in July. Blanchette served most recently as Ingalls’ director of technical and design engineering, where he led the execution of design efforts for Arleigh Burke-class (DDG 51) Flight III destroyers, amphibious assault ship Bougainville (LHA 8), as well as San Antonio-class amphibious transport docks Fort Lauderdale (LPD 28), Richard M. McCool Jr. (LPD 29) and Harrisburg (LPD 30). Blanchette earned a Bachelor of Science in naval architecture and marine engineering from the University of Michigan. (Source: HII 05/27/21)
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