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Contract Award: Huntington Ingalls Industries Newport News Shipbuilding (Newport News, Virginia) – $7,933,077

Defense Daily Staff

Friday, September 10th, 2021

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Huntington Ingalls Industries, Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, Virginia, is awarded a $7,933,077 cost-plus-fixed-fee level-of-effort, cost-plus incentive fee (completion), and firm-fixed-price modification to delivery order N62793-21-F-7800. The delivery order is placed against contract N00024-19-D-4306 for planned incremental availability (PIA) execution on the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78). Work will be performed in Newport News, Virginia, and is expected to be completed by March 2022. Fiscal 2021 other procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $3,946,557 will be obligated at time of the modification award. This contract was not competitively procured. The Supervisor of Shipbuilding, Conversion and Repair, Newport News, Virginia, is the contracting activity.

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