At HII, our mission requires the best of us — the utmost character and values. Our long-term success and growth depend on truly living out our values in our relationships with our stakeholders: employees, customers, shareholders, suppliers, and communities. Staying aligned with these values as we make long-term decisions and investments reflects our awareness that HII’s impact reaches beyond the strict outlines of our business. Our sustainability initiatives demonstrate how we anticipate and address the needs of HII’s stakeholders, improve the world around us, and create enduring value. This is vitally important work to secure another century of success at HII. In service of this vision for our future, you can see our integrity, respect, and responsibility in our day-to-day actions, business approach, and culture of engagement, safety, and performance. Our sustainability strategy drives meaningful steps to foresee risks and opportunities ahead, position the Company to navigate them, and nourish and protect the strong, stable, resilient relationships on which our future growth and success – our sustainability – depend. Sustainability is what describes our values-based business model. Grounded in our mission, values, and purpose, HII’s MVP approach to sustainability guides our strategy, structural polices and programming, and animates our culture of service and ethics. These principles come to life in our daily decision-making and behaviors, and in our formal frameworks and processes. With our values as our north star, our sustainability strategy is optimized to yield long-term competitive advantages, shareholder value, and positive impact for our people, facilities, communities, and environment – in service of our mission. To carry true meaning, HII’s sustainability strategy relies on public reporting standards widely recognized as environmental, social, and governance (ESG). Given this usage, we refer to ESG here as our framework for reporting on the initiatives we undertake, the goals we set, and the progress we have made. Our values- based approach connects our performance in priority areas to who we are as a company. From our first ships in the 1800s to the digital solutions of today, it is our commitment to mission that has always been the bedrock of our success. Our mission to serve those who protect our freedom endures, even as technology advances and evolves over time. Our values-based culture of engagement and respect, continuous improvement to drive performance and safety, and our commitment to uphold integrity with our highest responsibilities to employees, customers, and shareholders keep us on a steady course.