Huntington Ingalls names new COO, CFO
21 December 2020
by Marc Selinger
Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) has promoted chief financial officer (CFO) Christopher Kastner to the new position of chief operating officer (COO), giving him oversight of the company’s three operating divisions, the US shipbuilder announced on 18 December.
The aircraft carrier
John F Kennedy
(CVN 79) is among the ships that Huntington Ingalls Industries is building for the US Navy.
(Huntington Ingalls Industries)
HII said that Kastner will work closely with the presidents of the three divisions – Newport News Shipbuilding, Ingalls Shipbuilding, and Technical Solutions – to “drive execution” on HII’s backlog, which recently set a record high.
By Ross Wilkers
Dec 21, 2020
Over the past two work days, a pair of the government market’s publicly-traded companies unveiled a series of promotions in their senior leadership ranks either in operational roles or on the board of directors.
Huntington Ingalls Industries has promoted its chief financial officer to a newly-created position and elevated a second executive to be the corporation’s next CFO.
The company said Friday that CFO Chris Kastner will become COO on Feb. 12, 2021, and be succeeded in that financial leadership role by Thomas Stiehle, who is CFO of the company’s Ingalls Shipbuilding segment.
As COO, Kastner will work with the presidents of HII’s three segments to drive execution on the backlog. Kastner became CFO in March 2016 and his tenure has included the late 2016 standup of HII’s government services segment known as Technical Solutions, which has integrated three more acquisitions since.