Photo Release — Huntington Ingalls Industries Announces New Chief Information Officer at Newport News Shipbuilding
June 18 2021 - 10:30AM
Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) announced today that Jason
Sutton has been promoted to chief information officer for its
Newport News Shipbuilding division, effective June 21.
Sutton will be responsible for all aspects of information
technology to enable Newport News to establish IT priorities and
meet strategic objectives. Sutton will guide the day-to-day
leadership of all information systems, while ensuring the
appropriate alignment to enterprise cybersecurity and IT goals.
Additionally, he will lead the HII enterprise cybersecurity and IT
organizational and leadership change model to build high-performing
teams.
Sutton will report to Bharat Amin, HII’s executive vice
president and chief information officer, for cybersecurity and
IT-related activities and also will have reporting responsibilities
to Jennifer Boykin, president of Newport News Shipbuilding.
“Jason’s experience will better help us bring the three HII
divisions together to create a force multiplier of people,
processes and tools that mature our cybersecurity operations,
create efficiencies and reduce cost, and deliver secure and
reliable information to the right people at the right time,” Amin
said. “His experience and expertise will further strengthen our
position as a top solution provider to our customers.”
A photo accompanying this release is available at:
https://newsroom.huntingtoningalls.com/file/jason-k-sutton.
“Jason brings two-plus decades of IT leadership to this
position. As we accelerate the pace of our digital transformation,
Jason’s experience in steel fabrication and assembly will prove
valuable as we progress our work on the aircraft carrier Enterprise
(CVN 80), the first aircraft carrier that will be built completely
in a digital environment,” Boykin said. “I am confident that
Jason’s new role will enable best practices that will drive
business efficiencies.”Sutton joined Newport News in 2018 as
director of operations integration, where he played a significant
role in the company’s efforts to transition multiple trades and
programs to digital shipbuilding. He currently serves as program
director for steel fabrication and assembly responsible for steel
fabrication, submarine and carrier structural assembly, and special
paint and treatment activities.
In this new role, Sutton will succeed Brian Fields, vice
president of business transformation and chief transformation
officer who is transitioning to vice president of the aircraft
carriers Enterprise (CVN 80) and Doris Miller (CVN 81).
Sutton graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1993, and
served more than 24 years in various Air Force strategic and
tactical leadership roles in cyberspace operations and IT. He
retired in 2018 as director of communications and CIO for Air
Combat Command, where he oversaw cyberspace and communications
policy, resource advocacy and program management supporting 94,000
active-duty and civilian personnel worldwide.
Sutton also holds masters’ degrees in organizational leadership
from Regent University and engineering management from the Air
Force Institute of Technology.
Huntington Ingalls Industries is America’s largest military
shipbuilding company and a provider of professional services to
partners in government and industry. For more than a century, HII’s
Newport News and Ingalls shipbuilding divisions in Virginia and
Mississippi have built more ships in more ship classes than any
other U.S. naval shipbuilder. HII’s Technical Solutions division
supports national security missions around the globe with unmanned
systems, defense and federal solutions, and nuclear and
environmental services. Headquartered in Newport News, Virginia,
HII employs more than 41,000 people operating both domestically and
internationally. For more information, visit:
- HII on the web: www.huntingtoningalls.com
- HII on Facebook:
www.facebook.com/HuntingtonIngallsIndustries
- HII on Twitter: twitter.com/hiindustries
- HII on YouTube: www.youtube.com/huntingtoningalls
- HII on Instagram: www.instagram.com/huntingtoningalls
Contact: Duane BourneDuane.A.Bourne@HII-co.com(757) 380-3581
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