October 9, 2012
PHOTO RELEASE -- NEWPORT NEWS SHIPBUILDING EMPLOYEE RECOGNIZED FOR PROFESSIONAL LEADERSHIP AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
NEWPORT NEWS, Va., Oct. 9, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) employee Timothy J. Sweitzer has received Inside Business' Top Forty Under 40 Award for his professional success and community involvement. Sweitzer is the director of material engineering for the company's Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division.
Inside Business, a local weekly business publication, created the Top Forty Under 40 award 14 years ago to recognize local business professionals under 40 years of age. Honorees are chosen by an independent judging panel from publicly submitted nominations. The winners will be honored during a banquet tonight at the Norfolk Waterside Marriott and profiled in a special issue of the magazine.
"Winning this award is an incredible honor and reflects the support and encouragement I am given at work and at home to pursue my professional and community interests," Sweitzer said.
Sweitzer is responsible for maintaining technical data for more than 300,000 active parts, assuring that more than $1 billion of material purchased per year meets all requirements, and improving performance through better integration between engineering and hundreds of suppliers. The 10-year shipyard veteran has held several leadership roles of increasing responsibility in production engineering, manufacturing planning, process excellence and quality. Sweitzer also serves as board chairman for Starbase Victory, a non-profit private/public partnership with Portsmouth Public Schools that inspires grade school students to pursue opportunities in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).
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HII is America’s largest shipbuilder, delivering the world’s most powerful ships and all-domain mission technologies, including unmanned systems, to U.S. and allied defense customers. HII is the largest producer of unmanned underwater vehicles for the U.S. Navy and the world.
With a more than 140-year history of advancing U.S. national security, HII builds and integrates defense capabilities extending from the core fleet to C6ISR, AI/ML, EW and synthetic training. Headquartered in Virginia, HII’s workforce is 44,000 strong.
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