May 18, 2023
The following white paper was written by Andrew Welsh-Huggins, published by Defense News, and sponsored by HII.
Excerpt:
The rapid advancement of long-range weapons and the risk they pose to naval forces are creating challenges for the U.S. Navy, which increasingly is leveraging the use of Unmanned Vehicles (UVs) and Unmanned, Underwater Vehicles (UUVs) in undersea and littoral operations to support a more distributed fleet, extend the operational reach of ships and submarines, and allow increased operational flexibility.
These developments represent a future of smaller platforms carrying far fewer personnel — or none at all, in some cases — which can help save service members’ lives, said Brian Furgala, technical director of the Command, Control, Computers, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) group in HII’s Mission Technologies division. Global engineering and defense technologies provider HII, based in Newport News, Virginia, is recognized as America’s largest shipbuilder.
HII is America’s largest shipbuilder, delivering the world’s most powerful ships and all-domain mission technologies, including unmanned systems, to U.S. and allied defense customers. HII is the largest producer of unmanned underwater vehicles for the U.S. Navy and the world.
With a more than 140-year history of advancing U.S. national security, HII builds and integrates defense capabilities extending from the core fleet to C6ISR, AI/ML, EW and synthetic training. Headquartered in Virginia, HII’s workforce is 44,000 strong.
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