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Paul McLeary on May 06, 2021 at 5:27 PM
An illustration of Spatial Integrated Systems’ work. The company has been acquired by Huntington Ingalls Industries
WASHINGTON: As the Navy takes its first cautious steps toward building a promised fleet of hundreds of unmanned ships, the nation’s largest shipbuilder is making big investments to ensure it’s a major player in constructing that fleet.
The Virginia-based Huntington Ingalls Industries has spent decades building the nation’s aircraft carriers and a good chunk of its destroyers, but company leaders are making the bet that the Navy’s move toward unmanned will create a new business that they need to invest in early.
Huntington Ingalls to Assemble Boeing’s Orca Unmanned Undersea Vehicle at New Facility Our Bureau 2518
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Huntington Ingalls has completed the first phase of its Unmanned Systems Center of Excellence with the construction of a 22,000-square-foot facility.
The first of two planned buildings on the 20-acre campus in Hampton, Virginia will be used to assemble hull structures for Boeing’s Orca Extra Large Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (XLUUV) program for the U.S. Navy.
Construction began in September 2020, following a ground-breaking event with special guests, including Gov. Ralph Northam and other state and local government officials.
Structural development of the main facility, a 135,000-square-foot building, is scheduled to be complete by the end of 2021. The facility will be used for unmanned systems prototyping, production and testing.
USS South Dakota attack submarine the most advanced submarine ever to be delivered to the Navy. The new boat, which is now operational, began as a prototype, test-bed platform to evolve these new technologies. What all of these
USS South Dakota innovations are informing current conceptual discussions now underway for the new generation of attack subs.
The U.S. Navy’s next-generation attack submarines will be larger than the existing fleet of Virginia-class attack submarines, a plan that could enable greater weapons payloads, longer service life and a host of not-yet-seen quieting technologies.
The Navy has begun work on a new generation of attack submarines with never-before-seen weapons, quieting technology, undersea attack drones, sonar and communications networking . . . to emerge in the 2030s.