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Navy/USMC

HII Awarded Navy’s LX(R) Selection

Thursday, April 12th, 2018

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HII Awarded Navy’s LX(R) Selection

Artist's rendering of the LPD-29 San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship. (Image: Huntington Ingalls Industries)

Last week the Navy announced in a FedBizOpps posting that it selected Huntington Ingalls Industries’ [HII] Ingalls Shipbuilding to build the LX(R) amphibious transport dock replacement with Flight II San Antonio-class amphibious dock transport ships.The notice intending to issue a sole source solicitation said HII “is the only source with the requisite knowledge and experience required to construct the lead ship” in the San Antonio-class Flight II.The LX(R) program is a new class of amphibious ships set to replace 12…

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