Jane Edwards
Mike Petters, CEO of Huntington Ingalls Industries, said the company expects the U.S. Navy to request more unmanned undersea vehicles in the future to meet the service“™s new mission requirements, USNI News reported Tuesday.
“Overall, we think unmanned space is going to fundamentally change the Navy going forward,“ Petters, a former Wash100 winner, said during the company“™s earnings call. “The intent to try to make ships more lethal, from the Navy standpoint, is something we“™re paying closer attention to.“
He added that the Navy and the U.S. Marine Corps should transform from “an operational concept perspective and then from a technology and platform perspective, and then all the way down to our training and recruiting perspective."
