Huntington Ingalls Inc., Newport News, Virginia, has been awarded a $16,052,162 cost-plus-fixed-fee modification to previously awarded contract N00024-21-C-2104 to exercise an option for engineering and technical design to support research and development concept formulation for current and future submarine platforms. Work will be performed in Newport News, Virginia, and is expected to be completed in September 2022. Fiscal 2022 research, development, test and evaluation (Navy) funding in the amount of $425,000 will be obligated at time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured and is a sole-source award pursuant to 10 U.S. Code 2304(c)(3) – industrial mobilization. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity.