Huntington Ingalls Inc., Pascagoula, Miss., is being awarded a $34,846,586 cost-plus-fixed fee contract for life cycle engineering and support services for the LPD 17 Class Amphibious Transport Dock Ship program. The services include: post-delivery planning and engineering, homeport technical support, class integrated product data environment, data maintenance and equipment management, systems integration and engineering support, LPD 17 class design services, research engineering, obsolescence management, class material readiness, emergent repair provision, training and logistics support, ship alteration development and installation, material management, operating cycle integration, availability planning, and configuration data management. This contract includes options which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of this contract to $242,000,000. Work will be performed in Pascagoula and is expected to be completed by December 2016. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00024-16-C-2415). (Source: DoD, 12/16/15)
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