Aussies select HII’s tech solutions

Australia’s Department of Defense has awarded a contract to Naval Shipbuilding Institute (NSI), a joint venture between Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Technical Solutions division and Kellogg Brown and Root’s (KBR) government services division, to establish and manage the island-nation’s new Naval Shipbuilding College. This effort is in support of Australia’s mission to recapitalize its shipbuilding and maritime sustainment industry. Australia announced its Request For Proposals in 2017 to establish a workforce “equipped with the right skills” to implement the country’s naval shipbuilding program by establishing the college as part of $90B (AUD) investment in Australia’s sovereign shipbuilding enterprise over 30-plus years. HII and KBR have put together a team from the shipbuilding, academic, and business sectors across Australia to ensure the mission of the Naval Shipbuilding College is properly executed. HII’s Technical Solutions was formed in December 2016 after HII acquired Camber Corp. and combined it with HII’s existing subsidiaries. Technical Solutions provides fleet maintenance and modernization, unmanned solutions and rapid prototyping, software development and network engineering, nuclear engineering and fabrication, and oil and gas engineering. Technical Solutions employs more than 5,000 workers in 35 states and 11 countries with mobile “fly-away” teams that support emergent situations around the globe. (Source: Marine Link 04/03/18) Gulf Coast Note: Technical Solutions has Gulf Coast sites in Pensacola and Panama City, Fla.; Dothan, Ala.; and New Orleans.