The Navy has awarded General Dymanics [GD] a multimillion dollar contract to develop the first two mobile landing ships for the sea service, according to a service statement issued late last week. The $744 million contract issued on May 27 will cover design and development of Mobile Landing Platform (MLP) 1 and 2, which will be the first of its class of MLPs designed to support the Navy’s Maritime Prepositioning Ship Squadrons, according to the statement. “This contract award…
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