
The Navy awarded Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Newport News Shipbuilding [HII] a $3 billion contract on Feb. 19 for the refueling and complex overhaul (RCOH) of the USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74). The RCOH is a mid-life event to refuel, overhaul and modernize the Nimitz-class carriers to support the second half of their 50-year service lives. Newport News Shipbuilding is the original contractor for all of the aircraft carrier in the class and thus the contract was not competitively procured. HII…