HII-Technical Solutions exec move

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) announced Feb. 21 that Michael Smith, executive VP for strategy and development, is moving immediately to HII’s Technical Solutions division. He will serve as president of its SN3 business and report to Michael Lempke, president of the Nuclear & Environmental group. The company also announced that Scott Stabler, executive VP of internal audit, is moving into a new role as HII’s executive VP and chief transformation officer, reporting to Mike Petters, HII’s President/CEO. Technical Solutions is a professional services business providing solutions to a variety of government and commercial customers worldwide. The division was formed in December 2016 when HII acquired Camber Corp. and combined it with HII’s existing services subsidiaries. It provides fleet maintenance and modernization, unmanned solutions and rapid prototyping, and software development; network engineering, training systems, logistics support, nuclear engineering and fabrication, and oil and gas engineering. Technical Solutions employs more than 5,000 people working in 35 states and 11 countries, with mobile “fly- away” teams that can support emergent situations around the globe, including a site at Panama City, Fla. HII’s Ingalls division is America’s largest military shipbuilding company with yards at Pascagoula, Miss., and Newport News, Va. (Source: HII 02/21/18)