NEWPORT NEWS, Va., May 29, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII ) will present at Deutsche Bank's fifth annual Global Industrials and Basic Materials Conference on Thursday, June 5 in Chicago. The presentation by HII President and Chief Executive Officer Mike Petters and Corporate Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Barbara Niland will begin at 10 a.m. Eastern time and will be webcast on www.huntingtoningalls.com .

Huntington Ingalls Industries 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. For more information about HII, visit:

• HII on the web: www.huntingtoningalls.com
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