May 18, 2023
Whitepaper: The New Reality of Undersea and Littoral Warfare
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.
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About HII
HII is America's Seapower Company. The nation’s largest shipbuilder, HII builds the manned and unmanned maritime systems and all-domain mission technologies that project U.S. and allied power around the world. With a more than 140-year history of advancing U.S. national security, HII is headquartered in Virginia and employs 46,000 people across three divisions.
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