Stiehle was promoted to the position in February 2021 after serving as vice president and CFO at HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division for nine years. In this current role, Stiehle is responsible for corporate business management functions, including investor relations, treasury, internal audit, contracts, accounting, financial reporting, planning and analysis, rates and budgets, and mergers and acquisition.

As CFO at Ingalls, Stiehle was responsible for all financial, contracts, estimating and pricing, finance and business management functions, as well as Information Technology functionality and services for the division. Previously, Stiehle served as vice president, contracts and pricing for Ingalls and was responsible for estimating, pricing, contract negotiations and administration and international trade compliance. Prior to joining HII in 2011, Stiehle worked for Northrop Grumman, Aerospace Sector, for 24 years.

Stiehle began his career with Grumman Aircraft Corp. as a design engineer, with tours in product operations, estimating and pricing and contracts, securing awards for both Department of Defense and commercial programs. He held positions of increasing responsibility within the business organization to include contracts and pricing manager, business manager and director of business management, overseeing all production business operations at Northrop Grumman’s Joint-STARS program valued at more than $3 billion, as well as lead business director for the company’s NATO AGS program.