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HII Sees Acquisitions as Bolstering Growth Beyond Surface Ships
HII is the country’s largest warship builder, its only supplier of aircraft carriers and amphibious ships, and one of just two companies that builds nuclear submarines. But the company formerly known as Huntington Ingalls Industries has broadened its portfolio in recent years as the Pentagon shifted its focus away from counterinsurgency operations toward countering China’s military buildup. Key acquisitions—unmanned underwater vehicle maker Hydroid in 2020, Alion Science & Technology in 2021—have given HII access to a welter of new technologies that are at the center of the Pacific shift.