Hello and welcome to the annual meeting of stockholders of Huntington Ingalls Industries. Please note that today's meeting is being recorded. During the meeting, we'll have two questions and answers. You can submit questions or comments at any time by clicking on the Q&A icon. It is now my pleasure to turn today's meeting over to Admiral Kirkland Donald, Chairman of Huntington Ingalls Industries. Admiral Donald, the floor is yours.
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for joining us today for our virtual 2025 annual meeting of stockholders. I am Kirkland Donald, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Huntington Ingalls Industries, and on behalf of our Board of Directors, I would like to welcome you to our meeting. I will serve as the chair of this meeting. I would now like to call the meeting to order. It is April 30th at 11:00 A.M., and the polls are open for voting. Before turning the meeting to the business portion of today's meeting, I'd like to recognize Chris Kastner, President and Chief Executive Officer of the company, and the other nominees for the Board of Directors who are joining us virtually today: Leon Collins, Leo Denault, Craig Faller, Victoria Harker, Frank Jimenez, Stacia Kelly, Tracy McKibben, Stephanie O'Sullivan, Tom Schievelbein, and John Welch.
All of the nominees are currently members of the Board of Directors. They have consented to serve if elected, and their names and short bios appear in the proxy statement for this meeting. I will now invite Chris to recognize the executive management team.
Thank you, Kirk. I would like to recognize the members of our executive management team, all of whom are participating in this annual meeting virtually: Tom Stiehle, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer; Brian Blanchette, Executive Vice President and President, Ingalls Shipbuilding; Chad Boudreaux, Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer; Eric Chewning, Executive Vice President, Strategy and Development; Andy Green, Executive Vice President and President, Mission Technologies; Paul Harris, Executive Vice President and Chief Sustainability and Compliance Officer; Brooke Hart, Executive Vice President, Communications; Stewart Holmes, Executive Vice President, Government and Customer Relations; Edmond Hughes, Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer; Chris Soong, Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer; and Kari Wilkinson, Executive Vice President and President, Newport News Shipbuilding. I will now turn the meeting back over to you, Kirk.
Thank you, Chris. The meeting will follow the order of business, and we will vote on the proposals presented to stockholders as described in our proxy statement. The order of business and rules of conduct are available on our virtual meeting website. We ask that each of you abide by the order of business and the rules of conduct to facilitate an orderly meeting and completion of the business items on today's agenda. We will have two question-and-answer periods: one for the proposals on which stockholders are voting at this meeting, and a second for general matters related to HII. Questions must be submitted through the meeting website. If you wish to submit a question and have not done so prior to the meeting, you may do so now.
In the unlikely event that we experience technical challenges causing us to lose our audio or webcast connection, the meeting will be adjourned and reconvened at 1:00 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time today at the company's headquarters in Newport News, Virginia, for the sole purpose of accepting ballots submitted by email and closing the polls. In the event of such an adjournment, stockholders and proxy holders can email at ocs@hiico.com to request a ballot. To be counted, ballots submitted by email must be transmitted to this email address before 1:00 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time. Information regarding the adjournment and reconvening of the meeting will, if possible, be displayed on the annual meeting website and our investor relations website. Our Board of Directors fixed March 6, 2025 as the record date for determining stockholders of record who are entitled to receive notice of and who may vote at this meeting.
Computershare Trust Company has been appointed the inspector of election for this meeting. Tiffany King, Corporate Vice President, Associate General Counsel, and Secretary, is the secretary for the meeting. Tiffany, will you please give the secretary's report?
Thank you, Kirk. Each stockholder of record, as of the record date, has been given proper notice of this meeting and has been furnished with a written copy of, or was provided electronic access to, the proxy statement dated March 21, 2025, a proxy card, and the 2024 annual report. Affidavits related to the mailing and electronic availability of the notice, annual report, and proxy statement will be filed with the records of this meeting. The holders of our common stock are entitled to one vote per share. The total number of shares outstanding and entitled to vote at the close of business on the March 6, 2025, record date was 39,235,593 shares of common stock. I am able to report that the shares represented at this meeting represent a majority of the shares entitled to vote and that a quorum is present.
If there is any stockholder participating in this meeting who hasn't voted and would like to vote, or if you would like to change your vote, please submit your vote now on the meeting website. I will turn the meeting back over to our Chairman.
All stockholders participating in this virtual meeting have been able to cast their votes since they entered the meeting website. We will now proceed with the final opportunity to vote on the five items of business described in the proxy statement. After we review the items of business and while final voting takes place, there will be a question-and-answer period for the five matters under consideration. If you have not already done so, please submit your question through the meeting website, and we will respond to the questions during the Q&A period. After the voting and any questions, we will receive the report of the secretary on the voting results, after which the official portion of the meeting will be concluded. We will now present, address any questions, and vote on the items of business set forth in our proxy statement.
The items of business before this meeting for a vote by the stockholders are as follows: first, the election of 12 directors to hold office until the 2026 annual meeting or until their successors are elected and qualified. The nominees and their bios were listed in the proxy statement. Second, a proposal to approve on an advisory basis the compensation of the named executive officers. Third, the proposal to ratify the appointment of Deloitte & Touche as the company's independent auditor for the year ending December 31, 2025. Fourth, the proposal to eliminate the personal liability of officers for monetary damages for breach of certain fiduciary duties as permitted by Delaware law. Fifth, a proposal to amend the company's restated certificate of incorporation to conform with the company's special meeting bylaw. We will now finalize the voting.
Proxies solicited on behalf of the Board of Directors and signed by the stockholders entitled to vote at this meeting have been deposited with the secretary of the meeting. The shares owned by these stockholders have been voted and represented at this meeting through the proxies held by our Corporate Secretary, Ms. King. These votes have been tallied by the inspector of elections. If any stockholder participating in this meeting virtually has a vote they wish to cast, please submit your vote now on the meeting website. While we are voting, we will address questions that have been submitted concerning the proposals on which we are voting.
Seeing there are no questions, we'll complete the voting process. Ms. King has voted the shares represented by the proxies that have been given to management before this meeting. These votes have been tallied by the inspector of election. The time is 11:09 A.M. I declare that the voting polls are now closed. Any votes that were submitted at this meeting will be included in the final tally once the inspector of elections has had an opportunity to verify the shares. We have received preliminary results of the meeting from the inspector of elections. Tiffany, please provide the voting results.
Thank you, Kirk. Based on the preliminary report of the inspector of election, each of the 12 nominees for director has received more than 87% of the shares voted and has been elected to serve until the 2026 annual meeting. The proposal to approve on an advisory basis the compensation of our named executive officers received 30,456,940 votes and has passed. The proposal to ratify the appointment of Deloitte & Touche as the company's auditor for 2025 received 34,005,499 votes and has passed. The proposal to eliminate the personal liability of officers for monetary damages for breach of certain fiduciary duties as permitted by Delaware law received 26,048,680 votes and has passed. The proposal to amend the company's restated certificate of incorporation to conform with the company's special meeting bylaws received 31,294,405 votes and has passed. That concludes my report.
Thank you, Tiffany. This concludes the official portion of the annual meeting. Our stockholders have received copies of our 2024 annual report to stockholders and our proxy statement for this meeting, or had access to these documents through the internet, and both were filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and made available through HII's website. We will not be making a formal presentation about the company, but we will address questions submitted by stockholders through the meeting website. If you have a question, please submit it now on the meeting website. We have no questions, and there being no further business to come before the meeting, I hereby declare the meeting adjourned. We thank you for your attendance and continued interest and support of HII. This concludes today's webcast.