HII : USING ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES SUPPORT MISSION PARTNERS
Todd Borkey , Chief Technology Officer at HII ’ s Mission Technologies division , shares how the company is working with the U . S . Navy
HII is an all-domain defence and technologies partner , recognized as America ’ s largest shipbuilder .
With a 135-year history of trusted partnerships in advancing U . S . national security , HII delivers critical capabilities ranging from powerful naval ships , to unmanned systems , ISR and AI / ML analytics .
The company is America ’ s only builder of nuclearpowered aircraft carriers and leading provider of mission-driven defence technologies . Todd Borkey , Chief Technology Officer at HII ’ s Mission Technologies division , explained : “ We have a century-long partnership with the U . S . Navy . In addition to building some of the state-of-the-art warships , we also happen to be number one in Live , Virtual , and Constructive ( LVC ) synthetic training , where we prepare Naval war fighters for virtually every conceivable situation they could experience .”
Borkey explained how HII is becoming very datadriven , with gains in digital ship building , C5ISR , artificial intelligence and modelling simulation .
“ We consider ourselves practitioners of AI . We develop a wide range of AI applications across RF sensing , C5ISR , cyber operations , LVC training and logistics . We were one of the first companies to integrate computer vision into operational ISR , and deploy modern natural language processing to a mission at scale . We have hundreds of data scientists and engineers who exploit big data and operationalise AI .”
A trusted developer of big data solutions at enterprise scale , HII is going to continue to innovate AI architectures that improve signal extraction from a wide range of client big data sets .
“ Our future is going towards what we call neuro-symbolic AI , and that allows us to leverage subject matter expertise and overcome some of the issues that are encountered by pure deep learning approaches ,” concluded Borkey .
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