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The company also renamed its technology division, updated its logo, <a href=\"https:\/\/hii.com\/\">launched a new website<\/a> and moved away from its Navy-centric color palette, as it tries to highlight its already significant and growing work in fields like autonomy and big data management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe need to make sure that potential customers see us as more than shipbuilders, or else they won\u2019t know that we\u2019re in those businesses, too, when it comes to data, artificial intelligence, autonomy and unmanned systems, for instance,\u201d HII top spokeswoman Brooke Hart told Defense News April 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chris Kastner, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/naval\/2022\/03\/01\/new-huntington-ingalls-chief-says-shipbuilders-future-is-as-defense-tech-provider\/\">who took over as HII\u2019s chief executive officer last month<\/a>, told reporters April 5 at the Navy League\u2019s annual Sea Air Space conference the company in the last five to eight years developed \u201ca very deliberate strategy to build a backlog in shipbuilding \u2014 it\u2019s over $40 billion now, both Newport News and Ingalls are well set up for the future \u2014 and then to invest in technologies\u201d that were maturing and had a clear path to military applicability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">HII in recent years acquired autonomous underwater systems company Hydroid and AI and simulation developer Alion Science and Technology, among others, to give the company a market share in new areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kastner said the newly renamed mission technologies division, which includes the company\u2019s non-shipbuilding work, is on pace to generate about $2.6 billion in sales this year. That puts the unit on par with the company\u2019s Ingalls Shipbuilding yard in Mississippi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said he expects the mission technologies unit to grow another 7% to 9% over the next couple years, noting he particularly hopes to see more work with the Army and Air Force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company has argued the increased technological expertise will improve its shipbuilding: Ingalls Shipbuilding and Newport News Shipbuilding can use the artificial intelligence and machine learning tools to enhance their \u201cdigital shipyard\u201d concepts and build warships more efficiently and therefore for a lower cost. The expertise in these areas could be leveraged to develop pitches to the Navy for how to integrate UUVs with submarines, for example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Still, the company wants to offer standalone products too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On April 4, HII announced the launch of Odyssey, an autonomy suite meant to transform any platform in any domain \u2014 a ship, an undersea vessel, a ground vehicle, an aircraft \u2014 into a robotic platform. Hart said this new offering drew on legacy capabilities as well as ones HII acquired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company also announced in late March its Remus 300 was selected to serve as the Navy\u2019s Lionfish small unmanned underwater vehicle. 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