Huntington Ingalls names Jonathan Padfield corporate director of customer affairs for amphibious programs

Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) announced today that Capt. Jonathan Padfield (U.S. Navy, Ret.) was appointed as Corporate Director of Customer Affairs for Amphibious programs, effective as of April 28, the Company said in a news release.

Prior to joining HII, Padfield had several naval commands, including the LSD and LPD 17-Class Squadron; Amphibious Squadron 3, where he led the six ships of the Peleliu Expeditionary Strike Group; USS San Antonio (LPD 17); and USS Comstock (LSD 45). He also served on the staffs of the Chief of Naval Operations; Amphibious Group 3; Naval Surfaces Forces, Pacific; and the Joint Staff.

Padfield has a bachelor's degree from the University of Utah and a master's degree in national security strategy from the National Defense University, National War College in Washington, D.C.

Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) designs, builds and maintains nuclear and non-nuclear ships for the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard and provides after-market services for military ships around the globe. For more than a century, HII has built more ships in more ship classes than any other U.S. naval shipbuilder at its Newport News Shipbuilding and Ingalls Shipbuilding divisions. Employing more than 38,000 in Virginia, Mississippi, Louisiana and California, HII also provides a wide variety of products and services to the commercial energy industry and other government customers, including the Department of Energy.