
Last week General Dynamics’s [GD] Bath Iron Works (BIW) became the second company to protest a recent award to Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII] for Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) planning yard services, following a similar move by Austal USA. In April the Navy awarded HII a $932 million award to support LCS yard services modernization work covering technical, planning, ship configuration, data, and logistics lifetime support required for in-service LCSs. After winning the contract, HII said in a statement the contract…