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.

Huntington Ingalls Industries' (NYSE:HII) Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division shipped two Virginia-class submarine modules to program partner General Dynamics Electric Boat on Sept. 19 — a first for the program and part of the plan to increase shipment capacity in support of the U.S. Navy's two-submarines-per-year build rate.

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.

Grand opening of NNS' Supplemental Module Outfitting Facility (SMOF), a $100 million investment to accommodate the Virginia Class Submarine Program's two-submarines-per-year build plan