Contract: Huntington Ingalls, $1.5B

Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc. of Pascagoula, Miss., a wholly owned subsidiary of Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding, is being awarded a $1,496,200,000 fixed-price-incentive modification to previously awarded contract for the procurement of the detail design and construction of LPD 26, the future USS John P. Murtha, 10th ship in the LPD 17 amphibious transport dock ship class. Work will be performed in Pascagoula, (82 percent); Crozet, Va. (4 percent); Beloit, Wis. (2 percent); and New Orleans, La. (1 percent). Other efforts will be performed at various sites throughout the United States (11 percent). Work is expected to be completed by February 2016. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD, 04/01/11)