MEDIA INVITED TO VIRGINIA-CLASS SUBMARINE MINNESOTA (SSN 783) CHRISTENING AND MEDIA PREVIEW EVENTS

MEDIA ADVISORY, Oct. 18, 2012 —

What:	Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) will christen the
	nation’s newest Virginia-class submarine, Minnesota (SSN 783),
	on Saturday, Oct. 27, at the company’s Newport News
	Shipbuilding (NNS) division. Media are invited to attend the
	ceremony as well as a media preview event Friday, Oct. 26, in
	advance of the festivities. The preview event will provide an
	opportunity to interview Minnesota shipbuilders and sailors, as
	well as ship’s sponsor Ellen Roughead, a Minnesota native and wife
	of former Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead.

	The christening ceremony is not open to the public. Invited guest
	include shipbuilders and their families; Minnesota sailors and the
	families; Roughead and her family; HII President and CEO Mike
	Petters and NNS President Matt Mulherin; and Navy and
	government representatives. Adm. Kirkland Donald, director of
	naval nuclear propulsion, will serve as the keynote speaker.
	Roughead, Petters and Mulherin will be available for interviews
	following the ceremony. HII will provide a live, multi-camera
	satellite broadcast of the christening ceremony in its entirety.
	Coordinates are below.

When:	Media Preview Day	Christening Ceremony
	Friday, Oct. 26	Saturday, Oct. 27
	10 a.m. EDT	10 a.m. EDT
	Media check-in: 9:30 a.m.	Media check-in: 9:15 a.m.

Where:	Media will park outside of the 60^th Street gate in the parking lot
	east of the Welding School and be escorted and transported by bus
	to and from the site through the 60^th Street gate (see directions
	below). The event will be held inside the Module Outfitting
	Facility (MOF). The bus will depart at 9:35 a.m. on Friday and
	9:20 a.m. on Saturday.

RSVP:	Confirmation of attendance is required. Please RSVP by noon
	on Wednesday, Oct. 24.You must present a photo ID and media
	credentials to be admitted. Please provide your name, Social
	Security Number, date and place of birth when you RSVP to:

	Christie Miller, Huntington Ingalls Industries
	(757) 380-3581
	[email protected]

Please note that because this is an industrial setting, long pants and flat, sturdy shoes are required attire.

A webcast of the event will be provided at http://www.tvworldwide.com/

events/hii-nns/121027/. A live, multi-camera satellite broadcast of the event also will be provided. Satellite information is as follows:

Satellite: Galaxy 17

Transponder: Ku Digital 19-Lower (18 Mhz)

Downlink Frequency: 12071.0 Mhz

Downlink Polarity: Horizontal

FEC: 3/4

Symbol Rate: 13.235 Mbps

DVBS, QPSK TRANSMISSION Window Times:

Date: Saturday, Oct. 27

Window Start: 0930 ET

Window End: 1130 ET

Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) designs, builds and maintains nuclear and non-nuclear ships for the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard and provides after-market services for military ships around the globe. For more than a century, HII has built more ships in more ship classes than any other U.S. naval shipbuilder. Employing more than 37,000 in Virginia, Mississippi, Louisiana and California, its primary business divisions are Newport News Shipbuilding and Ingalls Shipbuilding. For more information, visit: