Jennifer Childs named VP quality and engineering at Ingalls

HII (NYSE: HII) reports that Jennifer Childs has been named vice president of quality and engineering of the company’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division, effective Jan. 6, 2025.

She succeeds Brian Blanchette, who is to succeed Kari Wilkinson as president of Ingalls Shipbuilding (and become an HII VP) when Wilkinson becomes president of Newport News.

Childs is a former Navy surface warfare officer (nuclear), She has been with Ingalls for 17 years and previously served as director of technical & design...

https://www.marinelog.com/news/jennifer-childs-named-vp-quality-and-engineering-at-ingalls/

HHI names Kari Wilkinson next NNS president

Kari Wilkinson is to become president of Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division, effective Jan. 1, 2025. She will succeed Jennifer Boykin, who is retiring at year’s end after 37 years with the company.

Wilkinson, who has served as president of HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division since 2021, becomes the 21st president of NNS, which was founded in 1886.

“I have asked Jennifer to stay on in an advisory capacity through March to support a seamless transition to Kari,”...

https://www.marinelog.com/shipbuilding/shipyards/shipyard-news/hhi-names-kari-wilkinson-next-nns-president/