Ingalls gets $76.8M NSC contract

PASCAGOULA, Miss. -- Huntington Ingalls Industries' Ingalls Shipbuilding division today received a $76.8 million fixed-price contract from the U.S. Coast Guard to purchase long-lead materials for Kimball (WMSL 756), the company's seventh National Security Cutter (NSC). Construction and delivery will be performed at the company's Pascagoula facility. Funds will be used to buy major items for Kimball, such as steel, the main propulsion systems, generators, electrical switchboards and major castings. Ingalls has delivered three NSCs. Ingalls' fourth NSC, Hamilton (WMSL 753), will launch later this year and be christened on Oct. 26. The keel was recently laid on the fifth cutter, James (WMSL 754), and construction will begin on the company's sixth cutter, Munro (WMSL 755), later this year. (Source: Huntington Ingalls, 06/14/13) Previous