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AI brief of an SEC Form 8-K · Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII)

HII Names Kari Wilkinson President of Newport News Shipbuilding, Effective Jan. 1, 2025

Neutral Impact 3 of 5 leadership Written later

HII's board elected Executive Vice President Kari Wilkinson to lead Newport News Shipbuilding, its largest division, effective January 1, 2025, when Jennifer Boykin retires after 37 years with the company. Brian Blanchette was elected to succeed Wilkinson as president of Ingalls Shipbuilding on the same date, so the change affects two of HII's shipyards.

Key points

  • Wilkinson's annual base salary rises from $545,000 to $625,000, effective January 1, 2025; other compensation is substantially unchanged.
  • Boykin retires effective January 1, 2025 and will stay on in an advisory capacity through March, per CEO Chris Kastner.
  • Blanchette, currently vice president of quality and engineering at Ingalls, joined the company in 1996 and takes over Ingalls on January 1, 2025.

The filing

CompanyHuntington Ingalls Industries (HII)
Form8-K, current report
Filed with the SECNov 7, 2024, 4:35 PM ET
Accession number0001501585-24-000046

Items reported: 5.02 Director / Officer Change8.01 Other Events

Read the filing on SEC.gov ↗

Written by AI (Anthropic Claude, claude-haiku-5-5) on Nov 8, 2026, 12:56 AM ET, from the text of the filing and its press-release exhibits only. Written later: this filing was briefed after the fact, when past filings were added to the site, so the brief may be read with hindsight; the filing itself is the record of what was known on November 07, 2024.

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