AMSEC is now a subsidiary of Huntington Ingalls Industries. AMSEC’s customers will continue to interact with the same people they do today. AMSEC’s organization, individual assignments, responsibilities and authority, as they relate to our operations and the support of our customers will not change. Our management team will remain the same, with the same responsibilities and authorities. Our customers should experience no negative impact to their day-to-day operations. There will be no loss of jobs at AMSEC as a result of this transaction.
AMSEC will continue to pay close attention to our rates. Our customers will not have to process change-of-name documentation or any other contract modification as a result of this transaction. There will be no affect on our ability to meet our deliverable requirements. AMSEC will continue to make our own decisions as they affect our contracts and our clients. Cost estimates, delivery order bookings, invoices, etc. will still be generated locally and by the same team supporting our clients today. We will retain our ISO 9001:2000 certification.
Our goal is to improve our performance, competitive position and strengthen AMSEC for future growth. Our relationship with Huntington Ingalls Industries will offer AMSEC opportunities for business growth which in turn will create opportunities for our employees. Almost nothing will change in our day-to-day activities. There will be changes in the way we do some things, but they will mostly be procedural changes and “behind the scenes”…invisible to most employees and customers.
AMSEC was founded in 1981 to be a trusted provider of technical engineering services to the fleet. After 18 years of successful operations, AMSEC became a business partnership between SAIC and Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding in 1999. In 2007, AMSEC became a subsidiary of Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding. In 2011, AMSEC became a subsidiary of Huntington Ingalls Industries. Today, AMSEC has approximately 2,000 employees at 27 fleet locations and continues to enhance the readiness of U.S. aircraft carriers, submarines, and surface ships. On any given day, over 500 AMSEC employees are on-board U.S. Navy ships involved in assessing equipment conditions, modernizing systems, and training sailors. AMSEC’s “find-fix-train” capabilities are as relevant today as they were at our inception.
The Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) name builds upon the strong legacies of the shipbuilding divisions - Newport News Shipbuilding and Ingalls Shipbuilding. Collis P. Huntington founded Newport News Shipbuilding in 1886 and the Huntington family played prominent roles in the shipyard business in Newport News for more than 50 years. Ingalls Shipbuilding was established in 1938 by the Ingalls Iron Works of Birmingham, Alabama, a company founded by the Ingalls family with Robert I. Ingalls, Sr. at the helm. The Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc. name, by highlighting the legacies of our shipbuilding businesses that stretch back nearly 125 years, provides for the right foundation upon which to build our future as an independent, publicly-traded company.