Contract: Northrop Grumman, $12M

Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding Inc., Pascagoula, Miss., is being awarded a $12,000,000 cost-plus-fixed fee modification to previously awarded contract for government-furnished equipment workshare transportation efforts in support of the DDG 1000 Zumwalt-class destroyer. The anticipated modification will provide government-furnished workshare transportation efforts for the procurement of material required for the fabrication of cradles, fixtures, and other equipment that are necessary to safely and securely transport class products from Northrup Grumman Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Miss., to Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine. Work will be performed in Pascagoula, Miss. (95 percent), and Gulfport, Miss. (5 percent), and is expected to be completed by December 2011. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington Navy Yard, D.C., is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD, 12/29/10)