Contract: Ingalls, $8.9M

Huntington Ingalls Inc., Pascagoula, Miss., is being awarded an $8,964,961 modification to previously awarded contract to exercise options for DDG 51 class follow yard services. The follow yard services provides necessary engineering, technical, material procurement and production support; configuration; class flight upgrades and new technology support; data and logistics management; lessons learned analysis; acceptance trials; post-delivery test and trials; post-shakedown availability support; reliability and maintainability; system safety program support; material and fleet turnover support; shipyard engineering team; turnkey; crew indoctrination, design tool/design standardization, detail design development, and other technical and engineering analyses for the purpose of supporting DDG 51 class ship construction and test and trials. Work will be done in Pascagoula (97 percent) and Washington, D.C. (3 percent), and is expected to be completed by May 2014. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD, 05/16/13)