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Coast Guard Awards HII Advanced Procurement For Seventh NSC

Defense Daily Staff

Monday, June 17th, 2013

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A little more than a month after receiving a nearly $500 million contract for construction of the sixth National Security Cutter (NSC), Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII] on Friday said it has been awarded a $76.8 million contract to purchase long-lead materials for the seventh NSC. “This advance procurement contract allows us to maintain production line and supplier base momentum while we prepare for the ship construction contract,” Jim French, NSC program manager at HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division, said in a…

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