The Navy on Friday awarded Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII] two contracts totaling nearly $4.3 billion for work on the aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79), according to a Defense Department statement.
The service awarded a $3.3 billion fixed-price-incentive-firm target contract for all remaining detail design and construction (DD&C) efforts for the aircraft carrier. This new contract award, along with the other contract awarded Friday, will provide all design and construction services and material for the construction of CVN-79, including necessary research studies; engineering; design; related development efforts; detail design and procurement of material; construction; life cycle support; logistics data and other data.
Work is expected to complete by June 2022. The contract was not competitively procured.
The second contract is a $941 million cost-plus-incentive-fee modification to a previously-awarded contract for labor to complete CVN-79 component and steel fabrication, selected construction unit assemblies and all remaining direct material. This contract is expected to wrap up by June 2022. This contract was also not competitively procured, with the Navy citing only one responsible source and no other supplies or services satisfying agency requirements.