HII announced that retired Navy Adm. Craig S. Faller was elected to its board of directors.
“We are proud to welcome Craig to the Board of HII,” said Kirk Donald, chairman of the board of HII.
“His leadership, joint experience and extensive knowledge of national security will make him an integral part of the board’s role in growing the value of the company and strengthening HII’s relationship with customers. I look forward to Craig joining our team of directors.”
Faller retired from the Navy in 2021 after 38 years of service. He served most recently as commander of the U.S. Southern Command, where he built U.S. military partnerships with Latin American and Caribbean security forces. Under his leadership, the SouthCom team responded to complex security challenges like transnational criminal organizations, the Venezuela crisis, the global pandemic and the 2021 Haiti earthquake.
Before that, Faller was a senior military assistant to the secretary of defense, chief of legislative affairs for the Navy and director of operations for the U.S. Central Command.
After retiring from the Navy, Faller joined the board of trustees at CNA; the board of directors of Viken Detection; and the advisory boards of Sigma Defense Systems, PayCargo, Excelerate Energy and Penn State Applied Research Laboratory. He is also a distinguished fellow at the Atlantic Council and a senior fellow at the National Defense University and at Florida International University.