The Aircraft Carrier & Surface Ship Sustainment program provides comprehensive solutions to enhance the operational readiness and longevity of maritime platforms. Through advanced platform modernization, skilled Alteration Installation Teams implement upgrades that ensure mission relevance throughout the system's service life. The program also emphasizes warfighter training with end-to-end solutions that cover needs analysis, courseware development, and instruction in both traditional and blended formats. Additionally, "Find-Fix-Train" initiatives empower sailors with the knowledge and skills necessary for maintenance and repairs, fostering improved self-sufficiency while underway. Supported by experienced engineers and designers, the program delivers innovative ship design, construction, overhaul, and maintenance services essential for keeping the Navy's fleet ready. Integrated product support ensures total life-cycle management and logistics for all new systems and upgrades, while optimized warehousing and asset management streamline material handling to enhance operational efficiency.
HII Small Watercraft Sustainment provides comprehensive integrated product support for a range of maritime operations, ensuring that warfighters have access to essential expeditionary logistics services. Our capabilities include industrial fabrication and manufacturing, with certified welders performing MIG and TIG repairs on steel and aluminum hulls to meet rigorous NSTM and NAVSEA quality standards. We deploy fly-away teams globally for preventative and corrective maintenance, emergent repairs, and maintenance training, while our technicians are specialized in the repair and maintenance of propulsion systems from leading manufacturers such as Cummins, MTU, Caterpillar, and Mercury. With a focus on engineering and design, our naval architects and marine engineers leverage extensive expertise in small-craft marine engineering to enhance platform maintenance, ultimately increasing mission readiness and reducing total cost of ownership.
Rescue 21, developed by General Dynamics Mission Systems, is an advanced command, control, and direction-finding communication system designed to enhance search and rescue (SAR) operations for the U.S. Coast Guard. This state-of-the-art system is capable of precisely locating mariners in distress across the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts, as well as the Great Lakes, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and Guam. Featuring direction-finding capabilities, digital selective calling, enhanced geographic displays, and improved signal clarity, Rescue 21 enables efficient coordination between the Coast Guard, the Department of Homeland Security, and other first responders. Since its deployment, Rescue 21 has played a vital role in over 85,000 SAR cases, revolutionizing maritime safety with its unmatched precision and efficiency.
The Containerized Tethered Elevated Mast (C-TEM) is an advanced unmanned aerial system designed to improve line-of-sight communication for surface ships. With its all-weather, long-endurance mission capabilities, C-TEM ensures reliable and secure RF data transmission. Its modular design supports various mission-critical functions such as radar, electronic warfare, ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance), and counter-UAS, offering flexible applications for elevated communications, covert reconnaissance, port security, and more. Featuring rapid deployment, 360-degree coverage, intuitive controls, and minimal integration requirements, C-TEM provides the Navy's hybrid fleet with enhanced operational flexibility, resilience, and cyber-secure operations.
SEAScout is a lightweight, A-size, UUV that features a reconfigurable payload enabling it to perform multiple maritime missions such as decoy, gateway buoy, neutralizer, data gathering, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance.
Our Riverine Drifter is a low-cost, free-floating data collection buoy that travels with the river current to collect depth and temperature as a function of position.
Global maritime is changing, new challenges exist. There is the need to address environmental requirements, achieve greater operating efficiency and embrace new technology in ship and Submarine design. It is vital to stay at the forefront of innovation and at QinetiQ, we’ve always had an eye on the future.
One of the largest hydrodynamic facilities in the world with uniquely qualified specialist support using CFD and basin services to optimise your vessel design.
