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GD Lodges Second Protest To HII LCS Planning Yard Services Contract

Tuesday, June 25th, 2019

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GD Lodges Second Protest To HII LCS Planning Yard Services Contract

The USS Coronado (LCS 4) Independence-variant Littoral Combat Ship sailing away. Photo: U.S. Navy

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…

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