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Navy/USMC

HII Wins $936 Million Award For Third FY ’20 Destroyer

Tuesday, June 30th, 2020

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HII Wins $936 Million Award For Third FY ’20 Destroyer

Artist rendering of the first Flight III DDG-51 Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, the future USS Jack H. Lucas (DDG-125). (Image: Huntington Ingalls Industries)

The Navy awarded Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII] a $936 million modification June 29 to exercise a fiscal year 2020 option to build the third Arleigh Burke-class DDG-51 destroyer of the year, DDG-135. The award announcement said the modification also includes options for engineering change proposals, design budgeting requirements and post-delivery availabilities on the fiscal 2020 option ship. If the options are exercised, the total value of the FY ’20 option ship would rise to $948 million. Work will largely occur…

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