secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     HUNTINGTON INGALLS INDUSTRIES, INC. (HII)
CIK:        0001501585
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2022-02-01T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001193125-22-023552
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.55
Item codes: 5.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

HII names Chris Kastner President & CEO effective March 1; Mike Petters becomes Executive Vice Chairman
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- Christopher D. Kastner, currently COO, elected President and CEO and to the Board, effective March 1, 2022.
- Outgoing CEO Mike Petters will serve as Executive Vice Chairman of the Board during a transition period through 2022.
- Kastner previously served as EVP and CFO (2016-2021) and COO since February 2021.
- The succession is part of HII's multi-year planning; company backlog stands at $48 billion.
- Petters continues as an HII employee through 2022 and will remain chairman of the Aerospace Industries Association.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1501585/000119312522023552/0001193125-22-023552-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1501585/000119312522023552/d292072d8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-22-023552

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