HII prez earns prestigious award

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Mike Petters, Huntington Ingalls Industries’ president/CEO, was honored with the 2017 Owen B. Butler Education Excellence Award at the Committee for Economic Development’s Distinguished Performance Awards Dinner Sept. 13 in New York City. The award was established in 2013 for the former chairman of the Committee for Economic Development. The award recognizes an individual’s exceptional commitment to quality education, skills development and workforce development programs. In 2016, Petters established the annual HII Scholarship Fund for children of its employees pursuing post-secondary college or technical/vocation degrees, or enrolled in Pre-K school readiness programs. Petters declines his annual salary, except for a dollar, to fund the program. (Source: HII 09/14/17) Gulf Coast Note: HII’s Shipbuilding Division includes Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Miss.