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Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by, and welcome to the First Quarter twenty twenty five HII Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen only mode.

After the speakers' presentation, there will be a question and answer session. I would now like to hand the call over to Christy Thomas, Vice President of Investor Relations. Mrs. Thomas, you may begin.

Thank you, operator, and good morning, everyone. Welcome to the HII first quarter twenty twenty five conference call. Matters discussed on today's call that constitute forward looking statements, including our estimates regarding the company's outlook, involve risks and uncertainties and reflect the company's judgment based on information available at the time of this call. These risks and uncertainties may cause our actual results to differ materially. Additional information regarding these factors is contained in today's press release and the company's SEC filings.

We will also refer to certain non GAAP financial measures. For additional disclosures about these non GAAP measures, including reconciliations to comparable GAAP measures, please see the slides that accompany this webcast, which are available on the Investor Relations page of our website at ir.hii.com. On the call today are Chris Kastner, President and Chief Executive Officer and Tom Steely, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. I will now turn the call over to Chris.

Thanks, Christy. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining the call. I'll start by providing an update on our twenty twenty five operational initiatives, which include enhancing shipbuilding throughput, reducing costs and securing new contract awards. In the first quarter, we made progress against our goal of improving shipbuilding throughput by 20% year over year. Ingalls is largely on plan and their production milestones remain unchanged.

Newport News is modestly behind plan. Half of this variance is driven by the atypical weather we experienced in January and February. The most significant variance in Newport News resides with CVN 80. This is directly related to the late major equipment that is to be installed in the hull of the ship. These delays directly impact the construction approach and have limited the progress we can make on the ship.

Once this equipment is received from our suppliers, which is scheduled throughout the summer, we anticipate an acceleration of progress. Additionally, for both shipyards, our outsourcing efforts continue and we expect this to ramp throughout the year to support our throughput goals. Our South Carolina production facility is online and has already completed the first carrier unit for Newport News. The team remains focused on meeting our delivery schedules and is working with the Navy to identify additional initiatives that will accelerate scheduled performance. Turning to our cost reduction efforts, plans are in place and we intend to reach our goal of $250,000,000 in annualized cost reduction by year's end.

We have an agreement on the Block V FY24 two boat contract and we'll now turn our focus to the Block VI and Columbia Build II contracts. Also, I wanna highlight how our strategic focus in 2025 aligns nicely with the administration's defense priorities. On April 9, the Trump administration released two executive orders, modernizing defense acquisitions and spurring innovation in the defense industrial base and restoring America's maritime dominance. We are working with our customers on strengthening the industrial base and accelerating the transition of new capabilities to the warfighter. We are leaning into the use of other transaction authorities and are working with the Rapid Capabilities Office as a means to leverage new technologies.

For example, in April, we delivered the first two Lionfish, small uncrewed undersea vehicles to the U. S. Navy under a program that could scale to 200 vehicles. The program was developed in partnership with the U. S.

Navy and Defense Innovation Unit to accelerate adoption of dual use commercial technologies into U. S. Department of Defense programs. This quarter, we also announced that our Mission Technologies division was selected to develop an open architecture, high energy laser counter drone system for the US Army's Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office. HII will develop and test the high energy laser prototype to acquire, track, and destroy small to medium sized unmanned aircraft systems.

On the shipbuilding side of the business, we established an MOU with HD Hyundai Heavy Industries. The MOU provides a framework for us to jointly explore opportunities to collaborate on accelerating ship production in support of defense and commercial shipbuilding projects. Like our existing strategic relationship with U. K.-based Babcock International, we believe international partnerships are crucial to strengthening the Allied industrial base. Given our core business, these strategic relationships position us to support initiatives that may result from the Maritime Executive Order.

Turning to the results. First quarter revenue was $2,700,000,000 and earnings per share was $3.79 We ended the first quarter with backlog of $48,000,000,000 of which approximately $28,000,000,000 is currently funded. Now let me share a few first quarter highlights. During the quarter at Ingalls Shipbuilding, we launched DDG 129 Jeremiah Denton, christened LPD thirty Harrisburg and started fabrication of LPD thirty two Philadelphia. At Newport News, CVN 79 Kennedy continued catapult testing and achieved 95% of compartments turned over to the Navy.

And on the Virginia class program, we completed a major test event on the first boat of Block five SSN eight zero two Oklahoma. Also, at our recently acquired Newport News Charleston operations, we retained 99% of the transitioning workforce, and these new shipbuilding team members are working on submarine and carrier units to help increase throughput at Newport News. We also celebrated the graduation of a 15 apprentices during the apprentice school graduations at both shipyards. These graduates started the apprentice program during COVID, and we look forward to higher numbers of graduates in upcoming years following the expanded enrollment we've recently experienced. Turning to Mission Technologies.

In addition to delivering the initial lines of small UUVs I mentioned earlier, we surpassed 700 REMUS uncrewed underwater vehicles sold and delivered to 30 countries. Key wins at Mission Technologies in the quarter, in addition to the high energy laser weapon system, included a contract to expand shipboard and shore based training support for the US Navy and coalition forces, a pilot training contract to support the nation's combat ready force, an award from the US Air Force to protect systems and software, and a task order to support global air and space operations. Turning to activities in Washington for a moment, while a full year continuing resolution for defense is unprecedented, we are pleased with the support provided for our shipbuilding programs, which supports our target of achieving more than 50,000,000,000 in new awards across 2025 and 2026. The full year continuing appropriations and extensions act 2025 included funding for three Arleigh Burke class surface combatants, one Virginia class submarine, one San Antonio class amphibious ship and the RCOH for CVN 75. All note that we do not expect a material impact related to tariffs.

We purchased the vast majority of our material domestically. We have long term purchase agreements in place for material that may be impacted by tariffs. In summary, I'm encouraged by the results to date and the progress our team has made against the operational initiatives we've laid out. But I also know there's significant work to be done as we continue to execute for our customers and create value for our shareholders. Our outlook is unchanged and over the next few years as we execute on the pre COVID contracts and transition into the post COVID contracts, we will continue to reduce risk and align our portfolio baselines with the current environment.

I fully expect top line growth with a forecast of 15,000,000,000 of revenue by 02/1930 as well as margin of free cash flow normalization in the years ahead. And now I'll turn the call

over to Tom for some remarks on our financial performance. Tom?

Thanks, Chris, and good morning. Let me start by briefly discussing our first quarter results and then I will address our reaffirmed outlook for the year. For more detail, please refer to the earnings release issued this morning and posted to our website.

Beginning with our consolidated results on Slide five of the presentation, our first quarter revenues of approximately 2,700,000,000 decreased 2.5% compared to the same period last year. This decreased revenue was attributable to declines at Newport News Shipbuilding, Ingalls Shipbuilding and Mission Technologies. Ingalls revenues of $637,000,000 decreased by 2.7% compared to the first quarter of twenty twenty four, driven primarily by lower volume on amphibious assault ships. Newport News revenues of $1,400,000,000 decreased by 2.6% compared to the first quarter of twenty twenty four driven primarily by lower volumes in aircraft carriers and naval nuclear support services partially offset by higher volumes in the Columbia Class submarine program. Mission technology revenues of $735,000,000 decreased by 2% compared to the first quarter of twenty twenty four driven primarily by lower volume in C5ISR.

Results for the quarter exceeded our guidance. The year over year decline was expected and related to non recurring sales in the first quarter of twenty twenty four. Moving on to slide six. Segment operating income of $171,000,000 in the first quarter of twenty twenty five increased less than 1% compared to the first quarter of twenty twenty four, driven by improved performance at Mission Technologies in cyber, electronic warfare and space, and uncrewed systems, which was largely offset by lower amphibious assault ship Risk Retirements at Ingalls. At Newport News, segment operating income improved by $3,000,000 or 3.7 percent compared to the first quarter of twenty twenty four.

Results in the quarter included unfavorable performance related adjustments for CVN eighty Enterprise as well as Block IV and Block V of the Virginia Class program, which were offset by contract incentives. Consolidated operating income for the quarter of $161,000,000 increased by $7,000,000 or 4.5% from the first quarter of twenty twenty four, and operating margin of 5.9% in the quarter compared to 5.5% in the same period last year. The improvement was driven by a more favorable operating FAST CAS adjustment as well as the favorable segment results I've noted. Net earnings in the quarter were $149,000,000 compared to $153,000,000 in the first quarter of twenty twenty four. Diluted earnings per share in the quarter were $3.79 compared to $3.87 in the same period last year.

Our contractual commitments increased by approximately $2,100,000,000 in the period, bringing backlog to $48,000,000,000 at the end of the quarter. Turning to slide seven, cash used in operations was $395,000,000 in the quarter. Net capital expenditures were $67,000,000 or 2.5% of revenues. Free cash flow in the quarter was negative $462,000,000 This was within our free cash flow guidance range for the quarter, though at the low end of the range due to timing of incentives and normal fluctuations in program receipts and disbursements. During the quarter, we did not repurchase any shares.

We did pay a cash dividend of $1.35 per share or $53,000,000 in aggregate. Turning to liquidity and the balance sheet, we ended the quarter with a cash balance of $167,000,000 and liquidity of approximately 1,500,000,000.0 Today, we are repaying a $500,000,000 note and plan to utilize a revolving credit facility and commercial paper program to support interim liquidity as free cash flow generation ramps through the year. This is in line with our prior expectations and was contemplated in the interest expense guidance that we had previously provided and are reiterating today. Our capital allocation priorities are unchanged. We value our investment grade credit rating.

We will continue to strategically invest in our shipyards, thoughtfully grow our dividend and return excess cash through share repurchases. Moving on to our outlook on Slide eight, we are reiterating all elements of the twenty twenty five guidance and there is no change to our medium to long term thinking in terms of growth and profitability expectations. Our guidance is predicated on achieving the operational initiatives we have laid out for 2025. As Chris noted, we are progressing on each of these items and we expect to achieve a meaningful improvement in throughput over the course of the year. For shipbuilding, we expect second quarter sales of approximately $2,200,000,000 and margins near the low end of our annual guidance range.

For Mission Technologies, we expect second quarter sales that are relatively flat sequentially and margins of 3% to 3.5%. We expect second quarter free cash flow to be between 200,000,000 and 300,000,000 To close, I will echo Chris' positive sentiment regarding the company's mid to long term outlook. We see incredible demand for critical products and services that we provide and are heartened by the administration's clear focus on growing our domestic shipbuilding capability and supporting a strong maritime industrial base. With that, I'll turn the call back over to Christy to manage the Q and A.

Thanks, Tom. As a reminder to everyone on the call, please limit yourself to one initial question and one follow-up so we can get as many people through the queue as possible. Operator, I will turn it over to you to manage the Q and A.

Thank you very much, Christy. Our first question comes from Doug Harned with Bernstein. Doug, your line is now open. Please go ahead.

in the mail with the CR with additional money for shipbuilding infrastructure and then this big authorization proposal, that came up on the weekend. Now, you know, when you look at all of this, there should be more money there. But the thing that that, I've sort of struggled with here is how to take that money and convert it into a plan that can address what you say on the Virginia class, electric boat, and the whole infrastructure needs to happen to really get throughput up. Can you comment on where the responsibilities lie, what the navy is actually doing so that we can have confidence that not just the money is there, but the real actions are there to change the way things have been going over the last few years?

Sure, Doug. Let me let me give that a shot. That's a that's a big question. And it's not only the budget, the FY twenty twenty four-two boat, the executive orders related to commercial shipbuilding and then reconciliation. There's just a lot of tailwinds right now related to shipbuilding that we need to participate in.

Now the first step in seeing what the investments are in that regard is this FY 2024 Tubo contract. That was a product of really a couple of years of effort by the Navy and the shipbuilders to evaluate the investments that were required to get at accelerating throughput. You see that in the award of that contract. It was very thoughtfully put together. It's wage support and workforce development support.

It's very targeted investments to increase the submarine build rate. So that's all very positive. And then when you look at the SIB and the MIB funding that have been applied to the supplier base, that's also very positive. And you see a buildup of the infrastructure in shipbuilding that will support the growth that we think is ahead of us. So it's really a, I would think, an industry wide all hands on deck effort to identify a build out of that industrial base.

Now it's not easy. It takes time. These are heavy manufacturing facilities and equipment. This is building a workforce in a challenging environment. But I think it's only positive for HII and positive for shipbuilding.

But if and I guess the the challenge here is that there's been a lot of discussion about this over the last few years. And and just are there some specific things? Like, if you start to look at what you need to get to get to that rate of two Virginia class per year, you know, what's the trajectory for this? What are the specific things that that will enable you and your, your partner to get there?

Absolutely. And really the first step of that is this FY twenty twenty four-two boat contract targeted investments in workforce equipment facilities training that will accelerate the throughput. We have a lot of confidence that when these investments take hold, it's going to start to ramp throughput the submarine program. And this shouldn't end here. We're going to negotiate Block six of the Columbia Build two contracts.

We've identified additional investments that could potentially be applied to further accelerate. So it's going to as I said before, it's going to take a while. You just don't build a building overnight. You don't build a workforce overnight. But I absolutely think that these are the right investments to get at the build rate.

Our next question comes from David Strauss with Barclays. David, your line is now open. Please go ahead.

Chris, following up on the CR money, the 24.2% contract that was announced yesterday, looks like it's a cost some form of cost contract. How is that I thought we were operating under fixed price on Virginia Class. So how is that potentially different? What does that contract contemplate differently, I guess, than prior contract?

Yes. It's a bit of a hybrid, but I'll kick it over to Tom. He can answer that.

Yes. So it's a cost type contract. It covers both parties, the Navy and ourselves, as far

as what wants to be put on contract. It's a good mix and blend between affordability and profitability. It covers the business environment that we find ourselves operating in. So it's a CPIF and it has some constraints as far as some parameters around the outskirts of where cost can land. But we're happy that we were able to get that done.

We've worked hard with the Navy and it was approved through the government channels. As you saw, it was awarded last night. So we're excited about that to get going on that contract.

Okay. And any more detail on obviously, the chip building march in total came through better than what you had guided to Newport News got a fair amount better, Ingalls kind of continued to step back. Can you just a little bit more detail on exactly what's going on and why you're forecasting kind of a margin step down again in Q2? And if you also want to talk about what EACs were in the quarter? Thanks.

Yes, sure. So we guided 5.5% for the quarter, so we're happy with where we landed. We landed about 90 bps above that. Ingalls came in at 7.2%, and, it was a pacing quarter for them. I guess I can start with the EAC adjustments.

We had 80 up and 80 down for a net of zero. So there's no breakout for you. So there was no cumulative adjustments across the company as a net. Ingalls, pacing quarter, I would say, right now, we're watching how amphibs are performing. We show a little pressure on sales on the sales front.

And just kind of working ourselves to the heart of those programs down there. From a Newport News perspective, this is a good quarter as they came in at 6.1% on the margin side. It was a mix of, some pressures that we've seen on CV and 80 that Chris talked about in his remarks as we're waiting for parts to pop in there. It's just having a little bit of a draw on the EAC and schedule on that front. And then the VCS program as we're working people and parts to make sure we have enough people, talented people, the wages the wage element of this recent award will help that.

And on the parts side, just making sure we can feed that production line as that production line ramps up and wants to get to the one plus two that we've talked about earlier here. So the new award assisted with that with some incentives that helped to offset that. But as I said, overall, it was net neutral for EAC cum adjustments across the corporation.

Yes. David, this is Chris. I think you're seeing a bit of frustration regarding the timing of incentives kind of across the portfolio. I've talked spoken previously that we just have more incentives on our contracts now and the timing is variable at some point. So we try to guide based on what we see in front of us.

And if we if incentives fall before or after then it adjusts that a bit. But we're comfortable with our guidance.

that they had a very strong quarter. The CEW business unit performed well against the contracts they had. And the uncrewed business unit that we have there is performing well right now. So there's a couple of dollars of margin accretive on that front. The guide for Q2 that you asked about, I think we're just being conservative right now.

As Chris said, there's a lot of work to do. Although we're on pace and where we want to be on cost reductions and throughput, and, the contract awards, we've got the first increment of this one here in the spring, and then we have VCS Block six and Columbia Bill two at the back half of the year. But I

think it's just conservatism and prudence on

our side that we went back to the low end of the range.

next question comes from Scott Mucus with Felius Research. Scott, your line is now open. Please go ahead.

Good morning, Chris and Tom. Wanted to follow-up on David's question about two boat Virginia contract. It was surprising to see that it was cost plus, but obviously, there's funding in there for workforce development. Electric Boat has an ongoing labor negotiation. I think Newport News has three collective bargaining agreements expiring in '27.

So until those negotiations are wrapped up, should we expect a greater share of shipbuilding orders over the remainder of this year and next year to be more cost plus incentive fee type structures?

Yes. I wouldn't necessarily assume that. We need to really get the wage support that's provided in the two vote out to our workforce as quickly as we can. I'm not going to get into dates or commitments about when that happens, because we do have to discuss that with our labor unions. But we believe that when we get the workforce the support the wage support to our workforce that retention will improve and productivity will improve and we'll be able to make our throughput and our schedule commitments.

So I wouldn't necessarily think that, that would dictate the contract types. I we're going to evaluate the appropriate contract types based on the situation at hand when we negotiate the contracts. So we're just going to have to kind of move ahead from here on Block six and Columbia Build two. The hybrid approach that essentially was put in place with the two boat contract forms an interesting basis to roll into those discussions. But we're going to have to establish those contract types as we engage with the customer and our partner.

Okay. And then the Golden Dome is also a big priority for the administration, and that's gonna require a lot of equipment, especially radars and potentially the Aegis Ashore system. Lead times on radars are also very long. So has there been communication between shipbuilding and the administration about how to produce enough radars for both the Golden Dome and what the Navy needs for its shipbuilding priorities?

Yes. So we have not been involved in those discussions to date. I'm unaware of any discussions with the Navy and potential suppliers for that. So I will say our DDG 51 program is AEGIS program is going well. We saw 129 go on the water, 128 will get to its first trial this year.

So we're making progress on our milestones there. But relative to those ships with those new radars. But I'm unaware of any discussions relative to Golden Dome on our with our product.

All right. Thanks for taking the questions.

Thank you very much. Our next question is from Pete Skibitski with Alembic Global. Pete, your line is now open. Please go ahead.

Hey, good morning, guys. I guess Chris or Tom, I'm not sure, but kind of a complicated situation. But you guys have nearly $50,000,000,000 in total backlog right now and you're talking about an incremental $50,000,000,000 in new awards in the relative near term. How can we not think that there's upward pressure on that 4% shipbuilding revenue growth guide in this type of backdrop? Is it still just early or labor situation that confounding?

And I assume the 4% doesn't include $150,000,000,000 in defense adds that's potentially coming down the pike as well. So just want to hear your thoughts on that.

Yes. So let's say, the $50,000,000,000 in new awards includes the FY24 '2 boat contract, Block six, the Columbia second build. It also includes the Ampfit bundle down in Ingalls. So I wouldn't necessarily correlate it to a $50,000,000,000 add in backlog from our current backlog levels. Now tailwinds related to the 4% absolutely could happen.

I'm not going to go there from a guidance standpoint at all right now. But the tailwinds between reconciliation, the executive order, these contracts being put under contract, the investments that are being made in the industrial base and the shipyards, there's absolutely medium term upside related to that top line growth number. So we just need to take advantage of it and that's what we're going to work to do over the next couple of years.

Okay. I appreciate it. Just one last one for me on Ingalls margin. It used to be kind of reliably in the double digits, and it's kind of regressed over the past five quarters or so. What time frame is reasonable for us to think about the current environment changing to one where positive EAC adjustments are more maybe more likely than not?

Yeah. I think you nailed it, Pete. The culprit is the the positive easy adjustments. It's not so much that we're realizing kinda kinda negative adjustments, but we're staying on our run rate and we're neutral there. You know, all three of those programs are in a production environment.

The engineering works. Facility is up and running. We've come through the shipyard in the future and we're facilitized. It's really just about people and parts, being able to hire enough and keep the retention. And as we go forward with that, to make sure that we feed the factory to run its production environment there.

So I'm comfortable with the leadership down there and that we understand those ships. I think it's just coming post COVID and getting the stand out of the gears there and having the production flow run as fast as possible. We are down probably a couple of years and hours of experience down there. That just works itself through maybe not as cost efficient to realize those upsides or maybe a little bit more rework from time to time, maybe a piece of late material, whether it's CFE or GFE, just all conspired to maybe not have a month or two early in schedule or an EAC reduction that we just kind of finished on par. But I'm comfortable with where they are right now.

I mean I'd love to see upsides every quarter, but we have not seen like major step backs down there.

So I think they understand what's in front of them.

It's the throughput we've talked about, more cost efficiency, keep the factory fed with parts. And that shipyard with that portfolio has a legacy of performance. I think that they'll turn the corner. We haven't given you the time frame yet, and we'll keep you informed quarterly as we watch that proceed forward.

next question comes from Myles Walton with Wolfe Research. Myles, your line is now open. Please go ahead.

Thanks. Maybe, Chris, could you start by talking a little bit about the workforce and how it trended in the first quarter? I think you probably picked up about 500 employees with W International and the press release is still talking about 44,000 employees. So was there much of a movement in net hiring? And how is attrition doing?

Yes. So interesting. Good question, Myles. We hired 1,000 people in the first quarter, '1 thousand craftsmen and women. That's directly related to the change in the strategy in both shipyards to hire more experienced personnel and improve the mix of experience versus new hires.

We think that strategy makes sense. We're going to continue to execute on that. The good news is attrition is down in both shipyards. Not materially down, not back to pre COVID levels, but it is definitely moving in the right direction. So yes, hired 1,000, which is a bit south of where we wanted to be, but it's consistent with our strategy and attrition is a bit better in both shipyards which is very positive.

Okay. And regarding the 35% increase in outsourcing, can you comment on where you are with respect to that and sort of how the performance quality is looking from what you're outsourcing?

Actually, way we've executed on our outsourcing program has been very positive. We had some tough lessons learned back at Ingalls in outsourcing in the early 2000s. And we've used those lessons learned and applied them at both shipyards. So the quality is pretty good. We do pilots in these manufacturing yards before they actually execute work at scale.

And we learned through that process. They've done that. We are on schedule in both yards outsourcing for the year, and the quality looks good. So we're going to continue it. We need to.

The industrial base is expanding. We need to take advantage of it, but we need to make sure that it's always high quality Because if it's not, you have to redo it, and that doesn't help us at all. So, yes, it's very positive right now.

Okay. And last one, on the SAWS program, is there a direct benefit to the carrier programs? Or is it more of an indirect benefit with the submarines being the direct beneficiaries?

Yes. It supports the entire nuclear industrial base. So and nuclear infrastructure. So aircraft carriers could support in that as well.

Our next question comes from Seth Seifman with JPMorgan. Seth, your line is now open. Please go ahead.

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