Contract: Northrop, $31.8M

Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Miss., is being awarded a $31,800,000 basic ordering agreement for Post-Shakedown Availability for DDG 51 Class Destroyers. The orders to be issued are for PSA planning and support services and will include advance planning, engineering support, on-site engineering liaison, craft assistance, the ordering and processing of required material in support of PSAs. If necessary, orders may be issued to NGSB for PSA planning and support and emergent industrial availabilities for DDG 51 Class Destroyers built by Bath Iron Works Corp. if BIW is unable to perform the work. Work will be performed in Pascagoula, Miss. and in the ships' homeport, which may include Norfolk, Va.; San Diego, Calif.; and Mayport, Fla., and is expected to be completed by September 2012. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (Source: DoD, 03/16/09)