ADVISORY, June 19, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) —

Flat, comfortable shoes are recommended.

The JMAF is designed to include multiple worksites, advanced technology, automated equipment, heavyweight cranes, large transportation doors and specialty paint bays to enable more efficient construction processes.

Opening in 2017, the initial phases of the facility will include production bays to improve construction efficiencies under current contracts for the Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier and Virginia-class submarine programs.

Directions to Media Parking

From I-64 (either westbound or eastbound):

• Take Exit #264 to Interstate I-664 toward Downtown Newport News/Suffolk
• Take Exit #5 (35^th Street) to Warwick Blvd.
• Travel approximately 3 miles on Warwick Blvd.
• Immediately after 69^th Street, make a U-turn on to Huntington Avenue
• Merge into the right lane and continue to bear right on to Shipyard Drive
• Continue downhill and follow signs to media parking

About Huntington Ingalls Industries

Huntington Ingalls Industries is America’s largest military shipbuilding company and a provider of engineering, manufacturing and management services to the nuclear energy, oil and gas markets. 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. Headquartered in Newport News, Virginia, HII employs approximately 38,000 people operating both domestically and internationally. For more information, visit: