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HII (HUNTINGTON INGALLS INDUSTRIES)
Business trends
	
 HII revenues reached $11.5 billion (€10.7 billion) in 2024, virtually unchanged year-on-year in local currency 
(+0.7%). The Mission Technologies division recorded the strongest growth (+8.9%), ahead of shipbuilding 
activities (-2.7% for Newport News and +0.6% for Ingalls).
	
 HII partnered with Thales in September 2025 to develop underwater mine countermeasure capabilities by 
integrating the French group’s SAMDIS 600 sonar into the REMUS 620 medium-sized unmanned underwater 
vehicle. Equipped with this technology, the UUV will be able to carry out mine detection, classification and 
image transmission missions.	
 	
	
	
	
 In September 2025, HII and Babcock also signed a letter of intent to enable the British group’s WHLS torpedo 
handling and launch system to launch and recover REMUS UUVs from submarine torpedo tubes.
Home market
	
 HII operates almost exclusively in the U.S. naval defence sector, with the U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard as 
its main customers.
	
 In January 2025, Ingalls began steel cutting for the San Antonio-class landing platform dock Philadelphia 
(LPD-32), the third unit in the Flight II class. The shipyard is still working on the construction of the two previous 
units, Harrisburg (LPD-30) and Pittsburgh (LPD-31).
	
 In March 2025, Ingalls launched a third Arleigh Burke Flight III destroyer for the U.S. Navy, named 
Jeremiah Denton (DDG-129). The ship is equipped with Raytheon’s (RTX) AN/SPY-6(V)1 Air and Missile 
Defense Radar (AMDR) and Lockheed Martin’s Aegis Baseline 10 combat system. The shipyard is still working 
on four other Flight III ships, Ted Stevens (DDG-128), George M. Neal (DDG-131), Sam Nunn (DDG-133) and 
Thad Cochran (DDG-135).
	
 In July 2025, Newport News launched the Virginia-class nuclear-powered attack submarine named Arkansas 
(SSN-800), its last Block IV unit. The shipyard is simultaneously building four Block V submarines: Oklahoma 
(SSN-802), Barb (SSN-804), Wahoo (SSN-806) and Silversides (SSN-807).
Export markets
	
 HII’s export sales are mainly made of unmanned underwater vehicles, which were sold to some 30 countries. 
Export sales include three REMUS 100 and five REMUS 300 UUVs for the Royal Navy (for underwater 
exploration, surveillance and mine countermeasures missions) in May 2024 and one REMUS 300 UUV for 
the German Navy. 
	
 The Mission Technologies division signed a five-year, $296 million (€274 million) contract in January 2025 with 
the U.S. Air Force in Europe and Africa (USAFE-AFAFRICA) to assist in the planning, integration and execution 
of command and control, ISR, and air and missile defence missions.
Technology and Innovation
	
 Self-financed R&D expenditure amounted to $27 million (€25 million) in 2024, representing 0.2% of revenues. 
Most of the R&D costs of the group’s programmes are funded by government contracts.
	
 In March 2025, the Mission Technologies division was commissioned by the U.S. Army to develop the 
architecture for a ground-based or vehicle-based high-energy laser (HEL) weapon system designed to 
counter unmanned aerial vehicles.
	
 Newport News unveiled a new unmanned surface vehicle named Romulus in September 2025. This USV, 
nearly 6 metres long, is designed for several types of collaborative actions with surface, underwater and 
aerial platforms, such as anti-UAS warfare, ISR missions, strike operations, and the launch and recovery of 
unmanned underwater and aerial vehicles.
STRATEGIC HIGHLIGHTS