HII adds work for DDG 51

The Boeing Co. of Huntington Beach, Calif., is being awarded a $15,879,671 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for design agent and technical engineering services for the AN/USQ-82(V) family of systems consisting of the data multiplex system, fiber optic data multiplex system, and gigabit Ethernet data multiplex system. AN/USQ-82(V) systems are for high-speed fiber-optic shipboard networking for Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyers (DDG 51) . As the AN/USQ-82(V) design agent, Boeing will provide advanced and highly specialized technical engineering to assist with system sustainment; cybersecurity enhancement; configuration management; development, qualification and integration of systems; testing; and technical support to manufacturing and repair vendors. The contract includes options which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value to $82,394,253. Work will be performed in Huntington Beach, Calif. (69%); Arlington, Va. (19%); Pascagoula, Miss. (5%); Bath, Me. (5%); Seattle, Wash. (1%); and Philadelphia (1%. It is expected to be completed by May 2019. FY 2018 Navy shipbuilding and conversion; FY-18 Navy operations and maintenance; and foreign military sales funding in the amount of $6,499,675 will be obligated at time of award and will not expire at the end of FY-18. This contract combines purchases for the Navy (93%), and the Republic of Korea, Commonwealth of Australia, and Japan (7%), under the Foreign Military Sales program. This contract was not competitively procured in accordance with 10 U.S. Code 2304(c)(1), only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements. Naval Sea Systems Command of Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD 06/05/18) Gulf Coast Note: Ingalls Shipbuilding of Pascagoula uses modular construction techniques pioneered by the yard in the 1970s, and refined over the years to maximize shipyard throughput of the DDG 51 class.