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BAE Wins New Amphib Repair Contract

Friday, October 1st, 2021

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BAE Wins New Amphib Repair Contract

Artist rendering of the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship LPD-30 (Image: Huntington Ingalls Industries)

The Navy awarded BAE Systems a contract worth up to $169 million to repair and correct work on San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ships the future USS Fort Lauderdale (LPD-28), future USS Richard M. McCool Jr. (LPD-29) and LPD-30. The Naval Sea Systems Command contract is initially valued at $9 million for fitting out availabilities (FOAs) and post-shakedown availabilities (PSAs) of the three ships. It includes options that, if exercised, would raise the total contract value to $169 million. The…

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