Huntington Ingalls Industries to Host First Quarter Earnings Conference Call and Webcast on May 8

NEWPORT NEWS, Va., April 8, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) will release its first quarter 2013 financial results on Wednesday, May 8 and host an earnings conference call at 9 a.m. Eastern the same day. The call will be webcast live on HII's website: http://www.huntingtoningalls.com.

HII participants will include Mike Petters, president and chief executive officer, and Barbara A. Niland, corporate vice president, business management, and chief financial officer.

Replays of the call will be available on the website for a limited time. Presentations will be supplemented by a series of slides appearing on the company website. Listeners are encouraged to view these materials in conjunction with the call.

Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) designs, builds and maintains nuclear and non-nuclear ships for the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard and provides after-market services for military ships around the globe. For more than a century, HII has built more ships in more ship classes than any other U.S. naval shipbuilder at its Newport News Shipbuilding and Ingalls Shipbuilding divisions. Employing about 37,000 in Virginia, Mississippi, Louisiana and California, HII also provides a wide variety of products and services to the commercial energy industry and other government customers, including the Department of Energy. For more information about HII, visit:

• HII on the web: www.huntingtoningalls.com
• HII on Facebook: www.facebook.com/HuntingtonIngallsIndustries
• HII on Twitter: twitter.com/hiindustries

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CONTACT: Jerri Fuller Dickseski (Media)
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         Dwayne Blake (Investors)
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