Christopher D. Kastner
President, Chief Executive Officer And Director at Huntington Ingalls Industries
Thanks, Christie. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us on today's call. Before discussing the results, I would like to thank each of our 44,000 employees for the work they do every day as they remain focused on our operational pillars of safety, quality, cost and schedule and driving the delivery of our customer commitments. Today, we reported another quarter of solid performance across each of our operating segments. These results reflect our continued focus on operational execution. Starting with our results on page three of the presentation. Sales of $2.7 billion for the quarter were 19.3% higher than 2021.
And diluted EPS was $4.44 for the quarter, up from $3.20 in 2021. New contract awards during the quarter were approximately $2 billion, which results in backlog of approximately $47 billion at the end of the quarter, of which $24.6 billion is currently funded. At Ingalls this quarter, LPD 29, Richard M. McCool Jr., was Christened until production continued on LPD 30, Harrisburg and LPD 31 Pittsburgh. We were also awarded the advanced procurement contract for LPD 32. Additionally, progress continues on LHA 8, Bougainville and long lead material procurement continued to LHA nine with a detailed design and construction contract award expected later this year.
On the DDG program, DDG 121, Frank E. Peterson, Jr. [Indecipherable] away this quarter until production continues on DDG 123 and subsequent DDGs. On the NSC program, we launched in Christian Denise 10 Calhoun this quarter. At Newport News, submarine and carrier construction and maintenance programs continue to progress. On the VCS program, as discussed in the first quarter call, SSN 796 New Jersey floated off in April. In addition, SSN 798 Massachusetts achieved pressure hole complete in the quarter, and the remaining Block IV and Block V boats continue to make progress. On CVN 79 Kennedy, we turned over the 1,000th compartment to the Navy last month, and we will ramp the testing program later this year.
CVN 80 Enterprise is beginning to take shape in the dry dock and early unit construction has begun on CVN 81 Doris Miller. On the RCOH program, CVN 73 USS George Washington continues to make progress on the testing phase and redelivery is now expected in the first quarter of 2023. CVN 74 USS John C. Stennis continues to make progress. and pre-advanced planning is underway on CVN 75 USS Harry S. Truman. Regarding our shipbuilding labor, ensuring our shipyards have a necessary workforce to execute our backlog remains a key risk and focus area. We have hired over 2,000 craftsmen and women through the first half of the year against our full year plan of 5,000.
While hiring is behind plan, we are making up this deficit using outside lease labor and overtime. Even in this current tight labor environment, we have continued to successfully bring shipbuilders on board and utilize our training programs in apprentice schools, which has positioned us to execute on our commitments. Now I want to take a moment to discuss the improvements to our execution operating system in the shipyards. Our operating system utilizes the best practice at each shipyard and allows our leaders and craftsman across all programs to speak the same language, be predictable and relentlessly focused on execution.
For example, the operating system breaks a long ship building construction schedule into phases the vary in duration but are generally 10 to 12 weeks and allows focus on the commitments and the critical path items to be accomplished in that phase. It also includes a common set of metrics and processes that provide feedback on progress and performance. I expect continued improvement of our operating system to drive our shipbuilding margin expansion opportunities and to take advantage of our significant backlog. The operating system also provides transparency to our customer of progress towards delivery of these important assets.
Moving to our Mission Technologies segment. We successfully demonstrated the prototype platform, the Ferro system, which has capabilities for launching, operating with and retrieving unmanned underwater vehicles from an amphibious ship. This achievement, which leveraged expertise across the HII segments reflects our commitment to delivering advanced technologies and multi-domain capability to support our national security customers. We also were awarded the Mobility Air Forces Distributed Mission Operations prime contract. This award is a key win in our strategy to expand our live virtual constructive customer base beyond the Navy to the Air Force and other services. Turning to slide five.
We have provided a snapshot of the Mission Technologies pipeline. Among recent contract awards, we were just awarded a task order decisive mission actions and technology services or DMAs, to integrate new technology and capabilities and identify and characterize threats in support of the Department of Defense for the purpose of countering and deterring current and emerging global threats. This contract has a total ceiling value of over $800 million, and this win is particularly important for further validating our investment thesis which is bringing together the innovation and technical expertise of legacy Alion with the depth and infrastructure breadth of HII.
This will create opportunity and value for our customers, shareholders and employees more than either company could have achieved on its own. While these strategic synergy wins are very positive, we continue to see contract award delays pressuring timing of current year revenues. However, we continue to have a very large pipeline that creates significant opportunity for bookings and sales growth. In that regard, heading into the third quarter, our Mission Technologies pipeline stands at $61 billion with $26 billion of qualified pipeline. The DMAs award and other expected awards will drive up our book-to-bill ratio, which was 0.8% for the second quarter.
All in all, I'm very pleased with the direction of Mission Technologies segment, and I'm excited about the growth opportunities in areas that support our customers' critical needs. Turning to activities in Washington. The President submitted his fiscal year 2023 budget request in March which is now under consideration by Congress. As bill progressed through both chambers, we continue to see bipartisan support for our programs reflected in the defense appropriations and authorization bills in the House and the Senate.
We are very pleased to see the strong support of our shipbuilding programs in the Draft Senate appropriations bill released last week. This bill includes an additional Arleigh Burke-class destroyer $250 million for LPD 33 advanced procurement and $289 million for LHA 10, and continues the seal production of submarine, destroyers and amphibious warships that leverages production lines and supply chains to efficiently produce the ships our nation requires. The two authorization committees have also shown strong support for shipbuilding to include adding LPD-33 advanced procurement funding authority and requiring 31 amphibious warfare shift in the naval combat force.
Both appropriation bills and both authorization bills include language in support of a DDG-51 multiyear procurement contract in FY 2023, and provide additional support and funding for the submarine industrial base. We are pleased with the legislative support our programs have received thus far, and final outcomes will depend on eventual respective conference negotiations between the appropriations and authorization committees.
And now I will turn the call over to Tom for some remarks on our financial results. Tom?
