NEWPORT NEWS AWARDED CONTRACT OPTION FOR SUBMARINE OPERATIONAL SUPPORT AND DECOMMISSIONING
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. -- Huntington Ingalls Industries - Newport News Shipbuilding, has been awarded a $36,566,645 cost-plus-fixed-fee option exercise modification to previously awarded contract N00024-20-C-2109, from the United States Navy, for engineering, technical, trade and program management support of industrial type work for operational and decommissioning submarines, submarines undergoing availabilities/conversion, special mission submersibles and submarine support facilities.
Work will be performed in Newport News, Virginia (90%); Kings Bay, Georgia (3%), Bremerton, Washington (2%); Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (2%); Kittery, Maine (2%); and Groton, Connecticut (1%). This contract includes advanced submarine research and development, including studies to support the future development, production and sustainment phases of the platforms.
Work is expected to be completed by September 2022.
This contract was not competitively procured. Fiscal 2020 other procurement (Navy) funding in the amount of $5,461,081 will be obligated at time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.
The U.S. Navy's Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity.