HII’s Mission Technologies secures $3B DOD contract

Huntington Ingalls Industries’ McLean-based Mission Technologies division won a $3 billion contract to provide the Department of Defense logistics and intelligence support and technology.

Under the Logistics Services, ISR [Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance] Operations and Next-Gen Technology (LOGIX) task order, the HII division will provide strategy-level support to the DOD and its mission partners. HII announced the award, which supports the Pentagon’s Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) strategy, on Wednesday.

Todd Gentry, president of Mission Technologies’ All-Domain Operations group, said in a statement: “LOGIX positions our team to expand our support to mission partners globally, partnering with DOD to provide worldclass intelligence, integrated logistics, and emerging technologies and solutions to enhance and inform our mission partners’ decision space in a multi-domain contested environment. We’re honored to have been selected and are ready to execute.”

Newport News-based Huntington Ingalls Industries is the nation’s largest military shipbuilder and the largest industrial employer in Virginia. The Fortune 500 company employs more than 44,000 workers. The Mission Technologies division has more than 7,000 employees and more than 100 facilities globally.

Also on Wednesday, HII reported its third quarter earnings. The shipbuilder’s revenue was $2.7 billion, down 2.4% from the third quarter of 2023. Lower volume at Mississippi-based Ingalls Shipbuilding and Newport News Shipbuilding drove the decrease, but Mission Technologies’ growth partially offset it, according to HII.

HII also lowered its fiscal 2024 shipbuilding revenue expectations — from a range of $8.8 billion to $9.1 billion down to approximately $8.8 billion — because of uncertainty about the timing of a Navy contract on Virginia-class Block V and Block VI and Columbia-class submarines, supply chain delays and a less experienced workforce. The company increased its expected revenue from the Mission Technologies division, though, from a range of $2.75 billion to $2.8 billion to a range of $2.8 billion to $2.85 billion.