Christopher D. Kastner
President and Chief Executive Officer at Huntington Ingalls Industries
Thanks, Christie, and good morning, everyone. Today, we released quarterly results that demonstrate continued top line growth across all three of our divisions, steady operational performance and strong free cash flow generation. Our focus on the fundamentals of the business is evidenced through our strong 5.3% year-to-date revenue growth or outstanding 2.4% book-to-bill in the quarter at Mission Technologies and continued shipbuilding milestone achievements.
Given our year-to-date results, we are pleased to increase our 2023 revenue and free cash flow guidance and Tom will provide more information on these increases during his remarks. Our talented workforce remains focused on executing our strategy, supporting our customers' top national defense priorities by delivering quality platforms, technologies and solutions and in parallel, winning new business leading to growth opportunities. Before I get into the results, I would like to thank our HII employees at all three divisions for their dedication, innovation and customer focus. Let's turn to our results on page three of the presentation. Top line growth increased 7.2% from the third quarter of 2022, resulting in a record third quarter revenue of $2.8 billion.
Diluted earnings per share was $3.70 for the quarter, up from $3.44 in the third quarter of 2022. New contract awards during the quarter were $5.4 billion, which resulted in backlog of approximately $49 billion at the end of the quarter, of which $27 billion is currently funded. Shifting to an update on our shipbuilding milestones in the third quarter at Ingalls we launched amphibious assault ship LHA eight Bougainville and laid the keel for LHA nine Fallujah. Also, we successfully completed acceptance trials for NSC 10 Calhoun and delivered her last month. In addition, we successfully launched and christened the Flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyer DDG 128 Ted Stevens.
Finally, Richard M. McCool Jr. is expected to complete acceptance trials and deliver in the fourth quarter of this year. Ingall's contract awards this quarter included a $155 million contract for the modernization of USS Zumwalt DDG 1000 and a significant award of seven of 10 Flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyers in the FY '23 DDG multiyear procurement competition. At Newport News, we continue to make progress on the Virginia-class attack submarines as we laid the keel of Oklahoma, SSN 802 and we reached pressure hull complete on Arkansas SSN800. We expect to float off SSN 798 Massachusetts and deliver SSN 796 New Jersey before the end of the year. We also continue to make progress on nuclear powered aircraft carrier construction, CVN-79 Kennedy is focused on compartment completion and the test program, having turned over more than 70% of the ship compartments to the Navy and lighting off combat systems for integrated testing.
CVN-80 Enterprise is progressing well and is approximately 25% complete. The cost for the combined buy of CVN-80 and 81 has benefited from the bundling and early procurement of the majority of the material. So much so that over 70% of the material for CVN-81 has already been placed on order generating significant savings over the traditional approach to ordering. However, due to major component delays from the supply chain, driven primarily from COVID and the labor and supply chain effects subsequent to COVID, delivery of CVN-80 is forecasted to be approximately 12 months late. To mitigate the delay, HII has worked with the Navy to employ innovative build techniques, which minimize the impact of CVN-81. At Mission Technologies, we saw the third straight quarter of record revenue with sales of $685 million, 15% over the third quarter of 2022.
In addition to strong sales growth, Mission Technologies also won several major strategic competitions in the quarter and now has posted over $5 billion in potential total contract value bookings year-to-date. These awards resulted in a third quarter backlog book-to-bill of 2.4 and a year-to-date backlog book-to-bill of 1.2. Significant wins in the quarter included the $1.4 billion joint network engineering and emerging operations task order, the $347 million contract for the Navy's Lionfish SUUV program and $244 million task order to integrate Minotaur software products into maritime platforms for the Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard. Shifting to activities in Washington, the federal government began the new fiscal year under a continuing resolution, which funds government operations through November 17.
While we applaud the congress for including an anomaly in the CR that will allow DoD to deviate from typical restrictions and obligate funding to begin construction of the second Columbia class nuclear submarine, we look forward to Congress proceeding as expeditiously as possible on appropriations bills. We also look forward to Congress completing their work on the fiscal year 2024 National Defense Authorization Act with the respective bills of the House and the Senate reflecting strong support for shipbuilding and other national security priorities. Final outcomes will depend on eventual respective conference negotiations between the appropriations and authorization committees, we are encouraged by the support of our programs thus far in the four committees of jurisdiction during the fiscal year 2024 budget cycle. Now turning to labor. We have hired nearly 5,400 craft personnel year-to-date through the third quarter, which puts us 8% ahead of our full year plan of approximately 5,000.
We have work to do to improve our retention rate and the shipbuilding teams are laser-focused on addressing this challenge. Retention and attendance and the acceleration of workforce development will remain consistent focus areas for us going forward. In summary, this was a very strong quarter, demonstrating continued focus and progress on our strategy of executing against our backlog and driving growth in Mission Technologies. We remain committed to continuing to create value for all of our stakeholders, our employees, customers, shareholders, suppliers and communities.
And now I will turn the call over to Tom for some remarks on our financial results. Tom?
