George Nungesser, program manager for Arleigh Burke-class destroyers at Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ (NYSE: HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding division, has been promoted to vice president of program management within the same business.
His promotion is effective April 1 and he will be the principal liaison to U.S. Navy and Coast Guard customers in his new position, the company said Monday.
Nungesser will also handle profit and loss functions for program execution work as part of his promotion.
Ingalls has completed eight destroyers and overhauled two vessels for the Navy during his leadership of the DDG 51 program, which he has managed since 2007.
He joined Ingalls as an industrial engineer in 1988 and later worked as the shipbuilding business’ director of planning yard services.