As planned, C. Michael Petters will end his time with Huntington Ingalls Industries on Dec. 31, sweeping away one of the final vestiges of the company’s past as Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding.
Petters joined the company then known as Newport News shipbuilding in 1987, eventually rising to become president of Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding and president of Northrop Grumman’s Newport News segment, according to his company bio.
Petters had planned to remain with the company through 2022, the company previously said. Christopher Kastner, who took over in March, is the company’s current president and chief executive officer.
Huntington Ingalls Industries, now known as HII, was spun off from Northrop Grumman in 2011. The Nuclear and Environment portfolio within the company’s Mission Technologies segment, formerly Technical Solutions, quarterbacks business development with the Department of Energy.
Among other places, HII has hooked on at the Los Alamos National Laboratory as an integrated subcontractor to prime contractor Triad National Security, whose contract in December the National Nuclear Security Administration extended through Nov.1, 2028.
