Huntington Ingalls Industries hires corporate director, Advanced Technologies Office

James LaCroix

Military shipbuilding company Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) has hired James J. LaCroix as corporate director of its Advanced Technologies Office in Newport, R.I.

LaCroix has more than 35 years of leadership and technical expertise gained at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Southeastern Massachusetts University (now University of Massachusetts Dartmouth).