Garry Schwartz

Garry Schwartz is vice president of Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) and president of the Defense & Federal Solutions (DFS) business group in HII’s Technical Solutions division. He is responsible for Technical Solutions’ global services business, which includes intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) and cyber; secure enterprise IT engineering and operations; military training and simulation; logistics management and integrated product support; and fleet maintenance, modernization, repair and sustainment.

Before promotion to president of DFS, Schwartz served as president of Technical Solutions’ Mission Driven Innovative Solutions (MDIS) group. He joined HII in 2017 as a subsidiary vice president and general manager responsible for training and simulation, cyber, and engineering.

Prior to joining HII, Schwartz was a vice president and operations manager with Alion Science and Technology. He was also a vice president and division manager with SAIC, where he led a portfolio of domestic and international programs supporting a broad array of defense and federal customers. He also served as a director and program manager on major defense acquisition programs.

Schwartz retired from the U.S. Marine Corps in 2004 with more than 21 years of service as an officer and former enlisted Marine. During his military tenure, his occupational specialties included artillery, joint specialty officer, operations analyst and cryptographic technician. He served combat tours in Operation Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. He also served tours at U.S. Central Command, U.S. Special Operations Command, U.S. Navy Central Command and Combined Force Maritime Component Command.

Schwartz earned a Bachelor of Science degree in psychology from the Illinois Institute of Technology and a Master of Science degree in operations research from the Naval Postgraduate School.

Huntington Ingalls Industries is America’s largest military shipbuilding company and a provider of professional services to partners in government and industry. For more than a century, HII’s Newport News and Ingalls shipbuilding divisions in Virginia and Mississippi have built more ships in more ship classes than any other U.S. naval shipbuilder. HII’s Technical Solutions division supports national security missions around the globe with unmanned systems, nuclear and environmental services, and defense and federal solutions. Headquartered in Newport News, Virginia, HII employs more than 42,000 people operating both domestically and internationally.