May 2, 2022
Huntington Ingalls Industries, the nation’s biggest builder of warships, is becoming something more: a leading provider of artificial intelligence, unmanned systems, digital reconnaissance, simulations and training for its military customer.
With a quarter of revenues now being generated outside its sprawling shipyards, newly-minted President & CEO Christopher D. Kastner says the company is investing in technologies that support the Navy’s future priorities, such as distributed maritime operations.
In recognition of the company’s evolving character, it will henceforth be known simply as HII—a name that can encompass diverse technologies—and recast its technical services unit as Mission Technologies.
Read the full story at Forbes.
HII is a global, all-domain defense provider. HII's mission is to deliver the world's most powerful ships and all-domain solutions in service of the nation, creating the advantage for our customers to protect peace and freedom around the world.
As the nation's largest military shipbuilder, and with a more than 135-year history of advancing U.S. national security, HII delivers critical capabilities extending from ships to unmanned systems, cyber, ISR, AI/ML and synthetic training. Headquartered in Virginia, HII's workforce is 44,000 strong.
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