“What AI allows you to do is optimize for how the work flows through the machine shops, based on prioritization of output and how the different inputs are adjusting,” said Eric Chewning, an HII executive.
Company after company has introduced unmanned platforms, but as one analyst said, the Navy "just has not given the indication that they are buying these at scale."
Cybersecurity skills must evolve in near-real time as Zero Day threats continue and AI provides new challenges.
“I have more ships than our shipyards can handle for the next 10 years, whether it’s a destroyer, whether it’s a tanker, whether it’s an oiler, whether it’s a submarine. So, I am not worried about the demand signal we have,” Navy Secretary John Phelan told House lawmakers.
The modification, along with another $1.2 billion to prime contractor HII, is meant to fund two Virginia-class subs.
“We’re obviously a little different. We buy and build in America,” said HII CEO Chris Kastner.
The weapon is envisioned to protect Army bases and vehicles from small- to medium-sized drones.
Blending superior optics, advanced stabilization and AI-powered autonomy in a compact and rugged system, ASELFLIR 600 delivers unmatched intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities.
The Australian government will aim to create 20,000 jobs over 30 years through what the document characterizes as a "whole-of-nation undertaking."
Senate Armed Services Committee chairman Roger Wicker said the shipbuilding industry will not be able to meet the Navy’s demand for Virginia-class submarines unless it is willing to pay competitive wages to workers doing a “very difficult, physical job.”
“We’re purpose building KEEL to help solve the capacity challenges in nuclear Navy shipbuilding,” KEEL's Chief Executive Brian Carter told Breaking Defense.
According to a summary of the survey results, 46 percent of respondents indicated the deal will improve their companies’ hiring, retention and training efforts, and 42 percent said the deal would help to “invest in equipment to ensure quality and on-time delivery.”
SAWS "is an innovative approach that increase wages, accelerates submarine production [and] reduces the cost through the [future years]," said HII CEO Chris Kastner.
Almost five years since awarding the first frigate contract, the US Navy is starting to move out on finding a second builder.
The acquisition comes amid a flurry of activities by the Navy and industry to bolster the submarine industrial base.
Most of the money would shore up buys for three Virginia-class subs, while some funding would go to help industry improve its productivity.