General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) NASSCO subsidiary has won a $107, 994, 835 U.S. Navy contract modification to conduct fiscal year 2012 dry-dock phased maintenance on the USS Essex, the Defense Department announced Wednesday.
The subsidiary will plan and carry out depot-level maintenance, alterations and modifications to update the ship’s military and technical attributes, the Pentagon said.
Work under the cost-plus award fee/incentive fee contract will occur in San Diego through February 2014 and the Southwest Regional Maintenance Center is the contracting activity.
Last month, the Pentagon announced NASSCO will renovate and modernize the USS Comstock under an estimated $104.8 million modification, awarded through the Navy’s fiscal year 2012 Extended Docking Phased Maintenance Availability fund.
