General Dynamics Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, is awarded a $22,714,829 cost-plus-award-fee and cost contract for support of the DDG 1000 Class Planning Yard requirements. Planning Yard requirements include: maintain necessary DDG 1000 Ship change document development, emergent technical problem investigation and resolution, integrated logistics support, maintenance and modernization planning, and other design and engineering products as required to maintain, modernize and sustain the class. This contract includes options which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of this contract to $343,717,651. Work will be performed in Bath, Maine, (99%); and other locations (less than 1% each, and collectively totaling 1%), and is expected to be completed by March 2025. If all options are exercised, work will continue through March 2029. Fiscal 2024 research, development, test and evaluation (Navy) funding in the amount of $7,496,540 (51%); fiscal 2024 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) funding in the amount of $5,660,165 (39%); and fiscal 2024 operations and maintenance (Navy) funding in the amount of $1,483,904 (10%), will be obligated at the time of award; of which $1,483,561 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively awarded. This contract award is pursuant to 10 U.S. Code 3204(a)(1). Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00024-24-C-2331).