Huntington Ingalls Industries of Pascagoula, Miss., is being awarded a $1,430,821,350 fixed-price-incentive modification to a previously awarded contract (N00024-16-C-2431) for the procurement of the detail design and construction of Landing Platform Dock (LPD 29) ship. Work will be performed in Pascagoula (82%); Crozet, Va. (3%); Beloit, Wis. (2%); and New Orleans (2%), with other efforts performed at various sites throughout the U.S. (11%), and is expected to be completed by July 2023. FY 2017 Navy shipbuilding and conversion funding in the amount of $1,247,244,740 will be obligated at time of award and will not expire at the end of FY-18. Naval Sea Systems Command of Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity. (Source: DOD 02/16/18) HII won a $218M advance procurement contract in 2017 from the Navy to provide long-lead-time material and advance construction activities for LPD 29, the 13th amphibious transport dock of the San Antonio (LPD 17) class. Preliminary work has begun on LPD 29; and fabrication begins later this year, according to HII. Portland (LPD 27), the 11th ship, will be commissioned on April 21 in Oregon. The 12th, Fort Lauderdale, is under construction and is expected to launch in the first quarter of 2020. (Source: Sun Herald 02/16/18)
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