NEWS RELEASE
MEDIA INVITED TO VIRGINIA-CLASS SUBMARINE MINNESOTA (SSN 783) CHRISTENING AND MEDIA PREVIEW EVENTS
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.
NEWS RELEASE
MULTIMEDIA RELEASE — NEWPORT NEWS SHIPBUILDING OPENS NEW SUBMARINE FACILITY
Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) announced today that its Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division opened a new, 65,000-square-foot facility, called the Supplemental Module Outfitting Facility (SMOF), to facilitate the Virginia Class Submarine (VCS) Program's two-submarines-per-year build plan.