Contract: Northrop Grumman, $17.2M

Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding Inc., Pascagoula, Miss., is being awarded a $17,224,434 cost-plus-fixed-fee modification to previously awarded contract to exercise an option for fiscal 2010 class services in support of class product fabrication, delivery, engineering and engineering support of the DDG 1000 Zumwalt Class Destroyer. Ninety-five percent of the work will be done in Pascagoula and five percent in Gulfport, Miss., and is expected to be completed by December 2010. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington Navy Yard, D.C., is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD, 08/02/10)