HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding arm will provide planning and engineering services as well as perform shipboard inspections for the CVN 73 defueling program, HII said Friday.
“We hope this award is a first step toward the highly anticipated full award of the refueling and complex overhaul planning contract, ” said Chris Miner, a vice president of in-service aircraft carrier programs.
The aircraft carrier is the sixth Nimitz-class warship built by HII and the fourth military vessel named by the Navy after the U.S.’ first president.