Executives from Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Huntington Ingalls Industries have expressed optimism on their financial performance in 2021 amid the COVID-19 pandemic, USNI News reported Monday.
Read More »HII CEO Mike Petters Talks Operational Changes Amid COVID-19
Mike Petters, CEO of Huntington Ingalls Industries and former Wash100 Award recipient, has said that the company transitioned over 11K employees to telework settings due to the ongoing pandemic, Inside Defense reported Friday.
Read More »Mike Petters: HII Seeks to Meet Navy’s Demand for UUVs
Mike Petters, CEO of Huntington Ingalls Industries and a previous Wash100 award winner, said the company plans to tap into the U.S. Navy’s increasing demand for unmanned underwater vehicles, USNI News reported Thursday.
Read More »HII Christens Navy’s USS John F. Kennedy Carrier; Jennifer Boykin Quoted
Huntington Ingalls Industries held a christening for the U.S. Navy’s future USS John F. Kennedy aircraft carrier at the firm’s shipyard in Newport News, Va.
Read More »HII CEO Mike Petters: Risk Dialogue Important in Shipbuilding Programs
Mike Petters, president and CEO of Huntington Ingalls Industries and a former Wash100 recipient, has said the U.S. Navy and industry should engage in a conversation about risks to accelerate delivery of ships, USNI News reported Thursday.
Read More »HII CEO Mike Petters: $22B Contract Sets Rhythm for Submarine Production Over Next 10 Years
Mike Petters, CEO of Huntington Ingalls Industries and a previous Wash100 award winner, told CNBC’s “Squawk Alley” program in an interview posted Tuesday about the potential impact of a $22B contract with the U.S. Navy to build nine Virginia-class submarines.
Read More »Mike Petters: HII Working With General Dynamics, Navy to Finalize Block V Virginia-Class Submarine Contract
Mike Petters, CEO at Huntington Ingalls Industries, said the company has collaborated with the U.S. Navy and General Dynamics to finalize the contract for Block V of Virginia-class submarines, USNI News reported Thursday.
Read More »HII CEO Mike Petters Receives 2019 Vice Admiral Emory S. “Jerry” Land Medal
Mike Petters, president and CEO at Huntington Ingalls Industries and a former Wash100 winner, has been honored by the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers in validation of his contributions to the marine industry.
Read More »DoD Sec. Mark Esper Tours HII Newport News Shipyard
Mark Esper, secretary at the Department of Defense and a 2019 Wash100 winner, met with Mike Petters, president and CEO at Huntington Ingalls Industries and a 2017 Wash100 winner, during his visit at the company's Newport News Shipbuilding facility.
Read More »Mike Petters: HII Anticipates Demand for Unmanned Undersea Vehicles
Mike Petters, CEO of Huntington Ingalls Industries and a former Wash100 winner, said the company expects the U.S. Navy to request more unmanned undersea vehicles in the future to meet the service’s new mission requirements, USNI News reported Tuesday.
Read More »Mike Petters on HII’s Contracts, Navy’s Shipbuilding Plan
Mike Petters, president and CEO of Huntington Ingalls Industries, told analysts Thursday that this a “very exciting time in shipbuilding” amid HII’s recent contract wins, USNI News reported Thursday. “Orders are in the book and the team can get cut loose to execute those orders,” he told analysts during the company’s earnings call.
Read More »Report: Navy to Pursue Aircraft Carrier Block Buy
The U.S. Navy told Congress its plans to buy two Ford-class aircraft carriers in an effort to save billions of dollars as the military service pursues its 355-ship fleet goal, Reuters reported Tuesday. The service branch approached Huntington Ingalls Industries last year to obtain a detailed pricing on the potential cost of …
Read More »Huntington Ingalls Expects JFK Carrier Completion Ahead of Schedule; Mike Petters Quoted
Huntington Ingalls Industries aims to complete and launch the U.S. Navy‘s John F. Kennedy aircraft carrier by the end of next year, USNI News reported Friday. HII CEO Mike Petters told analysts during a conference call held Thursday the company is ahead of schedule on JFK construction efforts and uses fewer man-hours to …
Read More »Mike Petters: HII in Competition for Navy’s Aircraft Carrier, Destroyer, Submarine Devt Programs
Mike Petters, president and CEO of Huntington Ingalls Industries, has said the company has proposals to construct two aircraft carriers, 10 submarines and 10 destroyer ships for the U.S. Navy, USNI News reported Thursday. “This is the most exciting time I’ve seen in shipbuilding in 30 years,” Petters said Thursday at the …
Read More »Mike Petters: HII Booked Q1 2018 Orders for Approximately 25 Warships
Mike Petters, president and CEO of Huntington Ingalls Industries, has said the company had booked contracts for approximately 25 combat ships at the end of the first quarter of fiscal 2018, the National Interest reported Saturday. “By the end of 2020, if all goes as planned, we will see a …
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