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HII Wins $352 Million Mod For More Early Boise Work

Monday, September 21st, 2020

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HII Wins $352 Million Mod For More Early Boise Work

USS Boise (SSN-764) first arrives at Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Newport News Shipbuilding division to begin its extended engineering overhaul in June 2018. (Photo: HII)

The Navy awarded Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII] another $352 million modification for more early production period work on the USS Boise (SSN-764) attack submarine overhaul. The Los Angeles-class SSN-764 has become the poster child of submarine maintenance delays. While it was originally scheduled to enter the Norfolk Naval Shipyard for extended maintenance in 2013, it was repeatedly delayed due to heavy workload repair schedules. In 2016, the submarine’s certification for normal operations expired. In 2017, the Navy finally awarded a…

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