Author: Ramona Adams|| Date Published: September 13, 2017
A Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) subsidiary has received a $150.8 million contract modification to continue planning yard services for the U.S. Navy‘s Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruisers and Spruance-class destroyers.
HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding business will provide modernization program planning; ship change planning development and installation; program management; type commander support; mobile assist teams; rotatable equipment pools; and ship configuration and logistics support, the Defense Departmentsaid Tuesday.
The modification has a base value of $73 million and work will occur in Pascagoula, Mississippi, through September 2018.
The Naval Sea Systems Command will obligate $21.2 million at the time of award from the service branch’s fiscal 2017 other procurement funds along with fiscal 2017 operations and maintenance funds.
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