
The Navy awarded HII [HII] a modification totaling $393 million on June 23 to help change the delivery strategy for the future Ford-class aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy (CVN-79) to a single-stage delivery process. The Defense Department contract announcement split the awards into a $274 million fixed-price incentive (firm target) and a $119 million cost-plus-fixed-fee and cost-plus-incentive-fee modifications. Officially, this covers actions “ to improve capability at ship delivery, define unpriced change orders, and for additional engineering and integrated logistics…