NEW YORK, March 31, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Mike Petters, president and CEO of Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc. (NYSE:HII), holds a ceremonial HII stock certificate Thursday morning on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. HII, America's largest military shipbuilder, separated from Northrop Grumman Corp. today in a spinoff and has begun operating as a new, independent and publicly traded company. Petters and other senior leaders representing HII visited the stock exchange to mark the company's first day of trading. Also pictured are Barbara A. Niland, HII's corporate vice president of business management and chief financial officer, and James Balducci, vice president and NYSE specialist with Spear, Leeds & Kellogg.
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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. Employing nearly 38,000 in Virginia, Mississippi, Louisiana and California, its primary business divisions are Newport News Shipbuilding and Ingalls Shipbuilding. For more information, please visit .
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