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Contract Award: Huntington Ingalls Industries Newport News Shipbuilding (Newport News, Virginia) – $12,986,545

Defense Daily Staff

Tuesday, June 1st, 2021

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Huntington Ingalls Industries, Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, Virginia, is awarded a $12,986,545 cost plus-fixed-fee modification to the previously awarded delivery order N62793-20-F-2012 off of contract N00024-19-D-4306 to continue full ship shock trials planning and execution for CVN 78. Work will be performed in Newport News, Virginia, and is expected to be completed by May 2022. Fiscal 2021 research, development, test, and evaluation funding in the amount of $2,200,000 will be obligated at time of award. This funding will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. The Supervisor of Shipbuilding, Conversion and Repair, USN, Newport News, Virginia, is the contracting activity.

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