Contract: Northrop, $175.5M

Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding Inc., Pascagoula, Miss., is being awarded a not-to-exceed $175,497,896 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for the procurement of long-lead time material, and planning and advance engineering services in support of one landing helicopter assault replacement Flight 0 amphibious assault ship. Twenty-three percent of the work will be done in Pascagoula, and 24 percent in Brunswick, Ga., and 24 percent in locations not yet determined. Other work locations are Los Angeles, Calif., York, Pa., and Brampton, Canada. Work is expected to be completed by March 2014. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD, 06/30/10)