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...Kellye Walker, general counsel at Huntington Ingalls Industries, America’s largest military shipbuilder, says: “Make sure everyone has clarity and transparency about what the job involves and make sure...
...Huntington Ingalls Industries Kellye WalkerExecutive vice-president and chief legal officer As chief legal officer of Huntington Ingalls Industries, the US’s largest military shipbuilder, Kellye Walker...
...I realise what a gift that is, that I’m able to work as hard as I want to work right now. This business is not famous for that.” Shannon Bond is the FT’s US media and marketing correspondent....
...Huntington Ingalls said the delay would give it more time to find ways to stay within what it called a “challenging budget” for the Kennedy....
...Such facilities can have far less confidence than Huntington Ingalls and other US contractors involved in large, long-term new procurement programmes about their future funding....
...Mike Petters, Huntington Ingalls’ chief executive, said sequestration’s near-term impact on his business was “fairly neutral” – but he accepted programmes might later be delayed slightly....
...However, the question that looms over Huntington Ingalls as surely as the vast crane over the Gerald Ford is whether the tougher budget environment will eventually catch up with its work....
...That had “major application” for General Dynamics and Huntington Ingalls, two of the biggest operators of naval shipyards, Mr McAleese said....
...This follows two other separations of lower-value divisions by Northrop Grumman (it spun off Huntington Ingalls) and L-3 (Engility)....
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...In 2011, it spun off its shipbuilding division as Huntington Ingalls Industries and the company said it had also cut back on volumes in its underperforming and non-core units....
...In 2009 Northrop Grumman sold its consulting unit to two private equity companies for about $1.7bn in cash and earlier this year it spun off its shipbuilding business to shareholders as Huntington Ingalls...
...Northrop completed the spin-off of its shipbuilding unit Huntington Ingalls Industries in the quarter, which helped earnings due to the $1.4bn received by Northrop as a result of the move....
...Stockholders will receive one share in the new company, Huntington Ingalls Industries, for every six Northrop shares they own....
...The company has already registered a “spinco” under the name Huntington Ingalls Industries, with the stock ticker, HII, although discussions with the Navy continue and a final move requires board approval...
...Henry Ford’s great-grandson gained a reputation early in his career as one of the US’s most environmentally aware business leaders....
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