EXHIBIT 99.3
LETTER TO CLIENTS
Relating to
HUNTINGTON INGALLS INDUSTRIES, INC.
Offer to Exchange
up to $500,000,000 3.844% Senior Notes due 2025 that have been registered under
the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), for any and all of
our outstanding unregistered 3.844% Senior Notes due 2025
and
up to $500,000,000 4.200% Senior Notes due 2030 that have been registered under
the Securities Act, for any and all of
our outstanding unregistered 4.200% Senior Notes due 2030
Pursuant to the Prospectus, dated , 2020
To Our Clients:
Enclosed for your consideration is a Prospectus, dated , 2020 (as it may be amended or supplemented from time to time, the “Prospectus”), and the Letter of Transmittal relating to the exchange offer of Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), whereby the Company is offering, upon the terms and subject to the conditions of the Prospectus, $500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of new 3.844% Senior Notes due 2025 (the “New 2025 Notes”) and $500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of new 4.200% Senior Notes due 2030 (the “New 2030 Notes” and, together with the New 2025 Notes, the “New Notes”) in exchange for an equal amount of outstanding 3.844% Senior Notes due 2025 (the “Old 2025 Notes”) and 4.200% Senior Notes due 2030 (the “Old 2030 Notes” and, together with the Old 2025 Notes, the “Old Notes”).
The exchange offer is intended to satisfy certain obligations of the Company contained in the Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of March 30, 2020, by and among the Company and the initial purchasers of the Old Notes.
This material is being forwarded to you as the beneficial owner of the Old Notes carried by us for your account but not registered in your name. A tender of such Old Notes may only be made by us as the holder of record and pursuant to your instructions, unless you obtain a properly completed bond power from us or arrange to have the Old Notes registered in your name.
Accordingly, we request instructions as to whether you wish us to tender on your behalf the Old Notes held by us for your account, pursuant to the terms and conditions set forth in the enclosed Prospectus and Letter of Transmittal.
Please forward your instructions to us as promptly as possible in order to permit us to tender the Old Notes on your behalf in accordance with the provisions of the exchange offer. The exchange offer will expire at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on , 2020, unless extended (such date and time, as they may be extended, the “expiration date”). The Company does not currently intend to extend the expiration date. Any Old Notes tendered pursuant to the exchange offer may be withdrawn any time prior to the expiration date.