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Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc. (HII)

Q2 2011 Earnings Call· Thu, Aug 11, 2011

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Operator

Operator

Good day ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the second quarter 2011 Huntington Ingalls Industries earnings conference call. My name Crystal and I will be your operator for today. At this time all participants are in a listen-only mode. Later we will conduct a question and answer session. (Operator instructions). As a reminder, today’s conference is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to your host for today Mr. Andy Green, Vice President, Investor relations. Please proceed.

Andy Green

President

Thanks Crystal. Good morning and welcome to the Huntington Ingalls Industries second quarter 2011 earnings conference call. With us today are Mike Petters, President and Chief Executive Officer, Barb Niland, Corporate Vice President, Business Management and Chief Financial Officer. As a reminder, statements made in today’s call that are not historical fact are considered forward-looking statements and are made pursuant to the Safe Harbor provisions of Federal Securities Law. Actual results may differ. Please refer to our SEC filings for a description of some of the factors that may cause actual results to vary materially from anticipated results. Also in their remarks today, Mike and Barb will refer to segment operating income and total and Ingalls’ operating margin in the second quarter of 2010, excluding non-recurring items which are Non-GAAP measures. Reconciliation of these adjusted operating margins to the comparable GAAP measure is included in a schedule that accompanied our earnings release. We have posted presentations slides on our website today that we plan to address during the call to supplement our comments. Please access our website at www.huntingtoningalls.com and click on the investor relations link to view the presentation as well as our earnings release. With that I’d like to turn the call over to Mike.

Mike Petters

President

Thanks, Andy. Good morning everyone and thanks for joining us on today’s call. I am pleased to report Huntington Ingalls Industries results for the second quarter of 2011, our first full quarter as an independent publicly traded company. Today we reported sales of $1.6 billion, down slightly over last year. Operating margin was 5.8% up significantly over last year, although last year’s operating income included a $113 million charge related to the Avondale wind down. Adjusting for that charge, operating margin was 5.4% last year. Diluted earnings per share was $0.80 up from a loss of $0.23 a year ago. During the second quarter we continued to be awarded new contracts including the award for DDG-113, the first ship in the DDG-51 restart and well as additional work on the Roosevelt refueling and complex overhaul. Our backlog was $16.8 billion at the end of the quarter, essentially flat over last quarter. Now walking through each of our major programs. For DDG-51 as I just mentioned, we received the contract award for DDG-113 and are in the process of bidding for DDG-114 and 116. We expect the next DDG-51 ships to be awarded later this year and we are pleased that the navy recognizes the value these ships bring to the fleet. This procurement, our first competitive program since Hurricane Katrina, provides the first external measure of our progress at Ingalls and also provides us the opportunity to demonstrate the advantages of serial production. On LPDs, we anticipate builders’ trials and deliveries of LPD-22 by the end of the year. However, the navy is considering additional scope that could delay delivery into early next year. The LPD-23 was christened in May and LPDs-24 and 25 continue to make progress. As we mentioned on the last call, we have finalized the contract…

Barb Niland

Chief Executive Officer

Thanks Mike and good morning to everyone on the call. I would like to briefly review our consolidated and segment results as disclosed in the press release and wrap up with some more detail on our capital structure and liquidity. If you turn to slide 4 of the presentation, reported second quarter sales decreased $47 million from the same period last year, driven by lower sales volume on the DDG-51 program with the deliveries of DDG-107 and DDG-110, along with last year’s completion of the enterprise dry-docking. The lower volume was partially offset by higher sales on the LHA program, the national security cutter program and the advance planning contract for the CVN-72 USSA Abraham Lincoln RCOH. In addition, during the second quarter of 2010, the LPD program was impacted by the decision to wind down shipbuilding operations at our Avondale facility which resulted in a revenue reduction of $115 million to reflect revised estimates to complete LPD-23 Anchorage and LPD-25 Somerset. Segment operating income in the quarter was $98 million, up $108 million from the same period last year. Total operating income was $91 million, up from a negative $20 million. Total operating margin was 5.8% for the quarter, compared with negative 1.2% in 2010. Excluding the $113 million pre-tax charge related to our Avondale facility, total operating margin was 5.4% last year compared to 5.8% this year. Diluted earnings per share was $0.80 for the quarter compared with a loss of $0.23 last year. These figures are not necessarily comparable given the Avondale items in last year’s results and the higher interest expense this year from our new debt structure. Diluted share count was $49.6 million, an increase of about 80,000 shares quarter-over-quarter. The increase in diluted shares over the first quarter was unusually large due to the…

Andy Green

President

Thanks Barb. As a reminder before we start the Q&A we request that you limit yourself to one question and one follow up so that we can accommodate as many people as possible. Crystal.

Operator

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen (operator instructions). Today’s first question comes from the line of Robert Spingarn with Credit Suisse. Please proceed.

Robert Spingarn - Credit Suisse

Analyst · Credit Suisse. Please proceed

Good morning Mike and Barb. Could you talk about – you sort of did give guidance in time of the second half of the year being similar to the first half. But Mike what are the obstacles that remain here and getting even more specific. Is it Avondale and perhaps you can put the answer in the context of what Barb just said on the lower cost estimate now.

Mike Petters

President

Okay. You know first of all as we’ve described the business over the past 6 months, there are a lot of moving parts and some of these parts get to be relatively large. It’s kind of lumpiness in the business I think is what Barb calls it. When we look back at the first six months of this year and we look at the things, we had some things that went well for us that were up ticks, we had some things that could have gone better which between those they all sort of netted out and they gave us a first half of the year that looks about what we think the business is going to look like for the second half of the year relative to our revenues and our earnings. Cash flows are a lot even more lumpy than that and so we are a little bit more reluctant to talk about that one. But we think that the LPDs getting 22 through to delivery is a big deal for us here in the second half of the year. Our plan and our commitment is to drive it to delivery by the end of the year. The navy is working with us on that, but it’s – we are trying to jam a lot into the sock here towards the end of the year on that ship and so we will see how that one turns out. We are committed to making sure that that’s of the highest quality delivery. Relative to Avondale, we’ve updated our proposal that reflects the experience so far. We’ve first put that proposal together, we were making some pretty conservative estimates on the things that – what things are going to cost us relative to this restructuring. As we’ve gone through and restructured and gone through the Tallulah and Wagman process and updated our estimates we’ve lowered our estimate for the total cost for the restructuring. So that’s just the evidence things are going pretty well.

Robert Spingarn - Credit Suisse

Analyst · Credit Suisse. Please proceed

Mike, how should we think about the talk that perhaps not all the cost is reimbursable or may be the better way to ask this is what is reimbursable? What do you expecting?

Mike Petters

President

Well, let me first of all start it – this is a negotiation that will be going on between us and the navy throughout the whole process and so we have an estimate for what we think it will cost. The navy will have their estimate for what they think it will cost and we’ll be both working to refine those estimates, and so I think what is happening here is that you are getting a lot of early publicity I think around this negotiation, but I don’t know Barb if you want to add anything to that.

Barb Niland

Chief Executive Officer

We firmly believe all the costs associated with this restructuring are recoverable. The reason why you submitted proposal is what you do is you get an advanced agreement that you can include it in your rates on all of your new contracts that you bid and it’s all billable costs, but what happens in the end is after you’ve experience all the actual costs and you negotiate your overheads rates in the out years and close them out is when all the final decision will be made on that.

Robert Spingarn - Credit Suisse

Analyst · Credit Suisse. Please proceed

So if there is eventually a disconnect between your proposal and what they reimburse, how and when would we see that book and where in your statements?

Barb Niland

Chief Executive Officer

You’d see it way out in the out years after the closure, but again I will reiterate, we stand firm. Everything we put in our proposal is allowable and allocable.

Robert Spingarn - Credit Suisse

Analyst · Credit Suisse. Please proceed

Okay, thanks very much and Mike if I could just finish by asking you to update us on the Ford program and the discussion there about some overruns in your exposure there. Thank you.

Mike Petters

President

Sure. The Ford is the lead ship. Lead ships are always challenging. As I said last quarter and I said again today, we remain committed to our financial targets on that program. We’ve laid out some, a path for how we expect to retire risk on that program and things are going pretty well, actually the management team there is aggressively working to retire that risk and improve the overall performance on the program. It is a lead ship and because it’s a lead ship, we did a couple of things in partnership with the navy to get the ship under contract. We set what I think are pretty aggressive targets for that construction and then we worked through how do you share the risk of the lead ship between us and the navy and the navy and the company remain committed to driving that program forward. From my own experience I have been involved with several lead ships. Quite frankly this lead ship is going better than any other that I have been involved with.

Operator

Operator

Our next question comes from the line of George Shapiro with Access 342. Please proceed.

George Shapiro - Access 342

Analyst · George Shapiro with Access 342. Please proceed

Good morning. If you look at – this is probably for Barb, but if you look for the provision for contract losses which was $61 million at the end of the first quarter and now dropped to 52 and the $19 million provision was also in there so effectively it would have dropped by $28 million. Now it seems like that will finish maybe by the end of the year long before the LPDs get delivered. So will we see just the continuation of these small negative cum catch ups like we saw this quarter or how does that get wind up?

Barb Niland

Chief Executive Officer

Well, it depends how the programs progressed. I’d like to think that in a perfect world everything would go smooth, but we’ve said all along that those are our risk program in the LPDs and LHA-6 and that we have the potential for small corrections as we go forward.

Mike Petters

President

And George I would just add that LPD-22 as the first of those 4 LPDs, that one probably when we implemented our class plans and our operating system, it gets the least benefit of that and so as we bring that ship through to delivery, we are certainly rolling all of the lessons from that back into the other 3 ships of the LPD class that we are working on.

George Shapiro - Access 342

Analyst · George Shapiro with Access 342. Please proceed

Okay and then could you just update us on where you stand in your pension with the markets doing what they’ve done the last few weeks? Obviously returns are going to probably be less than expected and the discount rate is going to be lower. So maybe just give us kind of the sensitivities and how you look at that.

Barbara Niland

Analyst · George Shapiro with Access 342. Please proceed

Sure. As you know our current plans established annually using assumptions based on the end of the prior year and we carry that through the year. So for modeling purposes along with a lot of different assumptions like with the pension accounting, we are using an average discount rate of 5.84% and we did assume long term asset returns of 8.5%. So that sensitivity would be look at a 25 basis point decrease in the discount rate would have approximately a 12 million increase in the FAS pension costs and a 25 basis point decrease in the long term asset return would approximately have an 8 million increase in FAS expense. We’re not providing guidance on 2012 as we’re in the midst of our annual operating plan process and we’re evaluating many scenarios associated with the recent market events particularly as they relate to pension. But another thing you have to consider too is that another variable in there that is difficult to quantify at the time is also the impact market performance would have to any CAS adjustments, excluding CAS harmonization. So that could potentially offset some of the negative earnings impact associated with changes in the discount rate or long term asset assumptions. It’s a watch item for us and we’ll certainly address it more next year as we come through it. Analyst Okay, thanks very much.

Barbara Niland

Analyst · George Shapiro with Access 342. Please proceed

You’re welcome.

Operator

Operator

Our next question comes from the line of Carter Copeland of Barclays Capital. Please proceed.

Unknown Analyst - Barclays Capital

Analyst · Carter Copeland of Barclays Capital. Please proceed

Hi, good morning guys. This is Leo in for Carter. I just had a quick question here. You signed the award for DDG-113. I was just wondering if you can talk about any changes let’s say with this contract versus the prior DDG contract. So just as you’re going through the new contracting process in general if you’re seeing any sort of changes with the customer for anything that you’re implementing that helps protect I suppose your business.

Mike Petters

President

Well I think first of all the DDG program has historically been a very successful program for both shipbuilders involved in it and I frankly would argue that the DDG program showed the benefit of serial production before the Virginia class program came along. There is a five- year gap in the production of destroyers and the 113 is the first ship following that gap in terms of the restart. During that gap, Dr. Carter put out some guidelines related to 50-50 share lines and ceilings and things like that that were absolutely brought to bear on this contract, but we were able to actually incorporate into our basis for the contract both what we thought the impact of the five year gap would be as well as what our experience post Katrina in our cost basis was and so that’s why we have the view that we’ll be able to perform pretty well in that program, a program that we’ve performed very well on historically.

Unknown Analyst - Barclays Capital

Analyst · Carter Copeland of Barclays Capital. Please proceed

Great and just another question quickly, in Ingalls where you had the 19 million charge, you noted that that was offset by improved performances. I was just wondering, were there any sort of incentive fee benefits that were in the quarter? I don’t know if anything related to the delivery of DDG-110. Were there any sort of one-time benefits in nature?

Barbara Niland

Analyst · Carter Copeland of Barclays Capital. Please proceed

There were no specific delivery incentives and everything, but after you deliver a ship you set up a small reserve for deferred work and things like that and so it was across a couple of programs where we didn’t spend as much money on deferred work and as we’ve come out of warranty periods we just had, it was about five or six different programs we had pick ups.

Unknown Analyst - Barclays Capital

Analyst · Carter Copeland of Barclays Capital. Please proceed

Okay, great and just very quickly, any changes in the tax rate and how do we think about as deferred taxes going forward?

Barbara Niland

Analyst · Carter Copeland of Barclays Capital. Please proceed

Let’s see. What you see right now for deferred state taxes I would expect to see about 3 million expense in each of the quarters going forward. The reason why you had 5 million going the other way in the first quarter was because we had two deliveries in the first quarter with Mississippi and DDG-110 and normally that would be ratable over the whole year. But because we had to close the books with Northrop we had to take that benefit in the first quarter. So I look at the deferred state taxes being about the same as they are this quarter going forward. But again there can be swings based on timing of deliveries and timing of cost incurred, changes in reserves, things like that, so not a simple answer there. As far as their effective tax rate, basically from Q1 to Q2 the change we benefited a little bit by the domestic manufacturing tax deduction based on contract mix. But going forward I would expect it to be in say the 35% to 35.5% range.

Operator

Operator

Our next question comes from the line of Jason Gursky with Citi. Please proceed. Jason Gursky – Citigroup: Good morning everyone. Two quick questions. First, Mike, maybe you could provide us with a bit of a history lesson dating back to the last time we went through declining defense budgets and reduced our overall fleet of ships and then out at sea. Walk us through what that looked like from the ship building industrial basis perspective and what that actually did to how long it took to build a ship or whether we ended up skipping some ships that were built. And then the second question is with regard to your 2015 guidance. You suggested 9% operating margins on flat revenues. I’m just trying to get a sense of when you say flat revenues, is that off of the 2010 full year revenue base or what you are now projecting for 2011?

Mike Petters

President

Okay, second one first. We’re looking at flat revenues off of the 2010 base. The timing of revenues for this year has shown up but I think that that’s not a sustainable impact. That’s just a timing issue. As far as the history lesson goes, now I feel old when I’m the one being asked for the history lesson here, but and I’ll try to convince this as quickly as I can. The challenge that you have when you start to decline the budget is that people want to stretch things out. They want to delay procurements or they want to delay schedules and what happens with that is that brings great inefficiency into the production line. What we saw for instance in our carrier production line was we actually started to move away from the four year centers of aircraft carriers. In the ‘80s we had two ship contracts. Imagine a two ship contract for aircraft carriers. We did that twice in the ‘80s and those ships, the last ship actually delivered in 1998. But starting with the follow on ship, the carrier program started to become stretched out. It went from four year centers. The 76 was the first follow on ship and that ship was delayed about a year. The 77 was the one that came after that and it was delayed a couple of years. The 78 came after that and it was delayed a couple of years and you could argue that in that timeframe when we bought three aircraft carriers we actually missed one. We should have bought four to keep it on the efficient schedule. Interestingly what happened is the Pentagon realized that they were getting to the point on the aircraft carriers that they were pushing the limit of what they really…

Operator

Operator

Our next question is from the line of Doug Harned with Sanford Bernstein. Please proceed.

Doug Harned - Sanford Bernstein

Analyst · Doug Harned with Sanford Bernstein. Please proceed

Good morning. I wanted to continue on the fourth for a little bit because we’ve seen, there was a report out this week talking about a 562 million increase over the target price due to what they say are construction inefficiencies. Perhaps could you talk about what this may refer to? Is this anything new? Is it related all to what you assumed in the first quarter when you adjusted rates? What’s happening here?

Mike Petters

President

Yeah. As I said before Doug, this is a new class of ship. When we took the ship on, it’s not, this isn’t a new class of a small ship, this is a new class of the backbone of the fleet. There’s new technology throughout the ship. The design parameters and the key performance parameters change the shift pretty dramatically. When you set down and say okay, how are we going to go contract for this ship? The discussion that we have in the contract negotiations is all about how much risk is there. As it is the lead ship there’s a substantial amount of risk and so then the question is how do you want to share that? Does the contractor bear all of that or does the government want to share in that? If the government and the contractor come to an agreement on how we’re going to share the risk, you can actually drive the cost down in terms of the price and so what we’ve done is we first of all as a baseline set a cost plus type contract and that then helps us manage the cost performance on the ship. We then have risk provisions that allow us and the government to work for achieving those targets. The performance on the ship right now is pretty solid. I’ve been on the ship very recently and I like what the team is doing, the things that they have in place, the initiatives that they have to mitigate the impact of this being a lead ship and so from my standpoint it’s going pretty well and let me reiterate, our financial performance targets on this program have not changed. When we came though the first quarter we decided not to take credit for retiring risk yet because we weren’t satisfied with what we’d seen, but that didn’t change our overall targets. We’re confident with where we’re going today and I think that Newport News's performance as evidence in this quarter report is that they’re on track.

Doug Harned - Sanford Bernstein

Analyst · Doug Harned with Sanford Bernstein. Please proceed

So you’re saying that this report coming out regarding an overrun is nothing inconsistent with what you’ve been seeing and what you’ve been working with the customer on doesn’t really affect your margin outlook for it?

Mike Petters

President

Yeah. I’m not going to comment on any particular story that’s out there. I would just say that we’re very confident with the financial performance on that program.

Doug Harned - Sanford Bernstein

Analyst · Doug Harned with Sanford Bernstein. Please proceed

And then on the DDGs, could you talk about the dynamic of the competition for DDG-116 being a competition and DDG-114 being one that’s designated for you? How does this work in terms of your pricing basically when you’re competing on 116 and how does that affect your thinking on 114?

Mike Petters

President

Doug, we’re in the middle of a competition here so I’m not sure that I really want to talk about my pricing strategy. I would say that I am very pleased with the Navy’s approach to this and I think that this shows that the Navy understands the value of serial production that we’re trying to put in place. That if we can get the rhythm going on destroyers, we can recreate the successful program that carried us through the last 15 years or so on that program. I testified last year to congress that the plan the Navy had for buying three destroyers every two years was unstable. I believe that we ought to be buying two destroyers a year and so my hope is that we’ll be able to show the value of serial production here which would then afford the Navy the opportunity to go do that.

Doug Harned - Sanford Bernstein

Analyst · Doug Harned with Sanford Bernstein. Please proceed

But if you look in the Gulf and say the Avondale charges which we understand those should be allowable costs. When you’re competing on this program, do those allowable costs, even though you can put this into your rates, does that change your competitiveness at all?

Mike Petters

President

The competition is basically our total value competition and so that’s something that we have to go deal with.

Doug Harned - Sanford Bernstein

Analyst · Doug Harned with Sanford Bernstein. Please proceed

Okay, great. Okay, thank you.

Operator

Operator

Our next question comes from the line of Darryl Genovesi with UBS. Please proceed.

Darryl Genovesi - UBS

Analyst · Darryl Genovesi with UBS. Please proceed

Good morning. So just to get back to Newport margins for a second, if I look back to 2010 it looks like in the first half of the year your margins at Newport were in sort of the mid 8% range and then in the second half they look like they’re implied up above 10 and then so I was just wondering what exactly caused that step up in that period and how does that kind of reconcile back to what you were saying about this year’s second half looking pretty consistent with the first half?

Barbara Niland

Analyst · Darryl Genovesi with UBS. Please proceed

Yeah. As with all our contracts and everything, we do have little one-time events or what I would call unusual events type thing. So as you particularly on the Virginia class submarine program, as you come out of your post delivery work and you complete deferred work with less the hours than you had planned or you deliver a ship and you retire risk, you have pickups as you retire those risks as you go forward. So we saw a little bit of that going on last year.

Darryl Genovesi - UBS

Analyst · Darryl Genovesi with UBS. Please proceed

Okay, thanks and then on the change to your estimates to close Avondale, I know a part of that $310 million was cash and then another part of it was related to an asset impairment. Is the change, the reduction to 271 all basically a cash impact?

Barbara Niland

Analyst · Darryl Genovesi with UBS. Please proceed

Most of it, yes.

Darryl Genovesi - UBS

Analyst · Darryl Genovesi with UBS. Please proceed

Okay. Thank you.

Operator

Operator

Our next question comes from the line of Heidi Wood with Morgan Stanley. Please proceed.

Heidi Wood - Morgan Stanley

Analyst · Heidi Wood with Morgan Stanley. Please proceed

Yes, good morning Mike and Barbara. How are you? Good. So a couple of questions. Thanks for giving us some color, Mike on your thoughts on 2012 and I just wanted to delve a little bit more into it if you don’t mind. Can you give us a little bit more color on the puts and takes between the two major yards as we think through next year? In other words, does Newport News stay more or less flat from a margin perspective and the margin that you’re talking about is principally at Ingalls or what are the puts and takes that Newport News as well next year that we ought to be aware of?

Mike Petters

President

Yeah, I think you’ve got it about right, Heidi. The Newport News folks are at the level today that we think they’ll sustain. There may be as Barb just pointed out, there may be one time events that will occur from time to time there that would help, could be better there, but generally that’s kind of the rate that we expect them to sustain. The real issue here is the rolling off of the forward loss contracts that we have on the LPDs. Delivery of 22 is a big issue for us, getting that done this year. That will have an impact on this year and if for whatever reason it moves into first quarter it will be a timing issue, but getting it behind us is a very important thing to do. But we are seeing really good work being done right now on 23 and 24 and we expect to deliver those by the end of next year and so if you kind of fast forward to where we are at the end of 2012, we’re down to LPD 25 and LHA 6 and so that and we will have started up the 113 and the LPD 26 and as we’ve been talking about, LPD 26 is a standalone contract at this point that presumes the cost base line post Katrina and so we’re expecting to perform at our normal and historic levels on those programs for shipbuilding, not just inside the LPD program. So really it’s the rolling off of the work in Pascagoula and Avondale that’s going to drive the performance next year.

Heidi Wood - Morgan Stanley

Analyst · Heidi Wood with Morgan Stanley. Please proceed

Great and then on CVN 78, you talked about being 26% complete now. As we again think forward the next kind of 12, 18 months, what are the potential milestone awards that you have? Are there some in ’11 or do some occur in ’12 and include in your answer where you’ll be in terms of percentage completion by the end of ’11 and by the end of ’12.

Mike Petters

President

Yeah. We’re into that process of the ship now where we’re building the ship in the dry dock and for the next couple of years as we head towards the launch, that’s basically the volume of the work. I think the launch is scheduled in 2013 and so between now and then that’s basically what we’re after is get the ship manufactured. Our objective is really to make sure that that launch is as high quality launch as we can have, that we’ve got as much completion as we can possibly create. As we’ve seen across all of our programs, the more outfitting that we can do prior to launch, the better performance on the ship. So overall we’ve got some pretty good targets there, but the next major milestone on that program I would say is the launch in 2013.

Heidi Wood - Morgan Stanley

Analyst · Heidi Wood with Morgan Stanley. Please proceed

Okay. So there won’t be any cumulative catch-up adjustments through the progress you make in 2012? Is that kind of what you, is that a better way to understand that?

Barbara Niland

Analyst · Heidi Wood with Morgan Stanley. Please proceed

It depends on performance against our plan. Performance in outfitting, how we’re doing with schedule, Heidi, there is a lot of moving parts there. We look at it every quarter.

Heidi Wood - Morgan Stanley

Analyst · Heidi Wood with Morgan Stanley. Please proceed

No, absolutely. I was trying to understand if there were certain things you get done that enable you that you had an agreement with the Navy that you would get milestone awards when you hit certain junctures.

Mike Petters

President

No. this is all about are we ready to take credit for retiring risk that we have in the program and we get to a point where we think that we’ve retired a certain amount of risk then we’ll step up. If we uncover new risk, then from time to time we might have to step back. We don’t anticipate at this point either of that. Between now and launch we’ll be doing those evaluations every quarter and we’ll see how that goes. But we’re pretty happy with the performance on that program today in terms of what the team is doing, how they’re executing the program and the way ahead.

Operator

Operator

Our next question comes from the line of Pete Kostiuk with Morgan Keegan. Please proceed.

Brian Ruttenbur - Morgan Keegan

Analyst · Pete Kostiuk with Morgan Keegan. Please proceed

Yes, thank you very much. This is Brian Ruttenbur with Morgan Keegan. A couple of questions just on, back to the history lesson. How much did budgets get cut as you stretched out those carrier fleets in the ‘80s to give us the rest of the history lesson? You talked about maybe one ship didn’t happen because of the stretch out. Can you give us percentage cuts per year during the last downturn?

Mike Petters

President

Yeah. I don’t know that I have any; I don’t have any good feel for that. The shipbuilding construction account has been relatively flat for many, many years since, I’d say since at least the latter part of the ‘90s and frankly if you looked at it decade by decade our perspective is that not sure how all these things are going to play out, but in order for the Navy to achieve its plan the decade ahead probably is a little better funded than the decade we just came through because in many Navy programs we’re going to be moving into serial production and producing ships, whereas over the last decade across the fleet there’s been a lot of lead ship construction and less serial production, so fewer ships were produced. So I’m not sure, I don’t have off the top of my head a year by year where the budget went, but I think that typically it’s been I think fairly flat.

Brian Ruttenbur - Morgan Keegan

Analyst · Pete Kostiuk with Morgan Keegan. Please proceed

Great. Thank you very much.

Operator

Operator

Our next question comes from the line of Rob Takacs with SunTrust. Please proceed. Rob Takacs – SunTrust: Good morning. Most of my questions have been answered. Can you provide me with the breakdown of backlog by segment?

Barbara Niland

Analyst · Rob Takacs with SunTrust

Sure. Let’s see. At Ingalls the total backlog is 5.6 billion and at Newport News it’s 11.2 for that total of 16.8. Rob Takacs – SunTrust: Okay, great. Thank you.

Operator

Operator

Today’s final question comes from the line of Myles Walton with Deutsche Bank. Please proceed.

Myles Walton - Deutsche Bank

Analyst · Deutsche Bank. Please proceed

Thanks for taking the question. Good morning. A couple of clarifications. First, the size of the positive adjustment in the second quarter on these five or six ships, what was the offset to the 19 million negative?

Barbara Niland

Analyst · Deutsche Bank. Please proceed

A little more than half.

Myles Walton - Deutsche Bank

Analyst · Deutsche Bank. Please proceed

A little more than half, okay and then back on pension, the other clarification as it relates to funding in years. I know required funding this year is negligible. What does the funding profile look like from a mandatory perspective today and then Bard do you have a sense of the sensitivities if you close the book today?

Barbara Niland

Analyst · Deutsche Bank. Please proceed

Yeah. We’re really not providing any of that information for the out years. Like we said, minimal pension funding requirements this year. I think it’s like $3 million for non-qualified plans, none for our qualified plans. So as far as the out year goes we’re not providing any of that information right now.

Myles Walton - Deutsche Bank

Analyst · Deutsche Bank. Please proceed

Okay and Mike the real question, as you go into the next negotiation on the CVN 79 on a fixed price basis, can you give us where CVN 78 will be? When you think the timing for the contracts would be and kind of how you’re approaching that contract given obviously you wouldn’t have been all the way through the 78 year?

Mike Petters

President

Right, and this is not atypical frankly. We’ll be at a point, assuming the plan of record that we would be negotiating this contract probably, it’s a 2013 ship so that’s the year we will be negotiating the contract, the end of ’12, beginning of 2013. Lots of data coming from the 78 to show us where we still think the risk might be in that program and as I’ve said a few times, this is a program where it’s sort of, there’s only one builder and there’s only one buyer. So we quickly have to get into a negotiation that is not so much about the price because we kind of know what the budget for the program is, then it’s a matter of how are you going to allocate the risk on the program and that’s the way we think about all these negotiations when we go into them, is what’s the way that we’re going to equitably share the risk or bear the risk. If we’re going to bear the risk it’s going to drive our price up. If there’s going to be risk shared it’s going to drive the price down. So that’s the way we think about it Myles and they all, every single negotiation I’ve been involved with has its own flavor.

Myles Walton - Deutsche Bank

Analyst · Deutsche Bank. Please proceed

Any reason to think that when kind of the initial booking rate on that contract is signed it would be much different that what Newport News is currently booking?

Mike Petters

President

Our booking policy won’t change on that program. I’m sure that once we sign that contract we will book conservatively. We will have a full view of what we think the risks in the program are and as we retire them we’ll book up.

Myles Walton - Deutsche Bank

Analyst · Deutsche Bank. Please proceed

Okay, that’s good. Thanks.

Operator

Operator

That does conclude our question-and-answer session for today. I would like to hand it back to Mr. Andy Green for closing remarks.

Mike Petters

President

Yeah, well just let me say thanks to all of you for being on the call today. As I said before we do remain well positioned to support the Navy and coastguards requirements across all of their platforms and we remain firmly on track to deliver the long term operating margin we discussed in the past. I think this quarter demonstrates the path that we’re on and we look forward to working with you in the future. Now, Andy?

Andy Green

President

That concludes the call. Thanks everyone.

Operator

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for your participation in today’s conference. This concludes our presentation. You may now disconnect, and have a great day.