HUNTINGTON INGALLS INDUSTRIES TO HOST SECOND QUARTER EARNINGS CONFERENCE CALL AND WEBCAST ON THURSDAY

What: Huntington Ingalls Industries’ second quarter 2017 earnings conference call

Who:Mike Petters, president and CEO, and Chris Kastner, executive vice president, business management, and chief financial officer

When: 9 a.m. EDT Thursday

Where:Live webcast: /

NEWPORT NEWS, Va., Aug. 01, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) will release its second quarter 2017 financial results on Thursday and host an earnings conference call at 9 a.m. EDT the same day. The call will be webcast live on HII’s website: /.

HII participants will include Mike Petters, president and CEO, and Chris Kastner, executive vice president, business management, and chief financial officer. Their remarks will be supplemented by a series of slides appearing on the company website. Listeners are encouraged to view these materials in conjunction with the call. Replays of the call will be available on the website for a limited time.

Huntington Ingalls Industries is America’s largest military shipbuilding company and a provider of professional services to partners in government and industry. For more than a century, HII’s Newport News and Ingalls shipbuilding divisions in Virginia and Mississippi have built more ships in more ship classes than any other U.S. naval shipbuilder. HII’s Technical Solutions division provides a wide range of professional services through its Fleet Support, Integrated Missions Solutions, Nuclear & Environmental, and Oil & Gas groups. Headquartered in Newport News, Virginia, HII employs nearly 37,000 people operating both domestically and internationally. For more information, visit: