HII duo among most influential in Miss.

PASCAGOULA, Miss. - Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (HII) retired Army Maj. Gen. Augustus L. Collins, a member of HII’s Board of Directors, and Edmond Hughes, VP of human resources and administration at HII-Ingalls, were honored by Our Mississippi magazine as two of the Top 25 Most Influential African-Americans in Mississippi. The 2018 awards gala took place Oct. 25 in Jackson. Collins is CEO of MINACT Inc., a Mississippi-based contractor that supports the U.S. Department of Labor’s Job Corps program in several states throughout the country. He served in the U.S. Army and Mississippi National Guard for more than 35 years. Hughes is responsible for leading all aspects of human resources related to the attraction, development and retention of the workforce at HII-Ingalls. Before joining Ingalls in 2006, he was a director of human resources at TRW. HII is America’s largest military shipbuilding company. (Source: HII 10/26/18)