HII: $77M more for DDG repairs

Huntington Ingalls Industries' Ingalls Shipbuilding of Pascagoula, Miss., is being awarded a $77,561,557 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract modification (N00024-17-C-4444) for the execution of USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62) emergent repair and restoration. This effort shall provide for additional collision repairs, maintenance and modernization of the damaged destroyer. Work will be performed in Pascagoula, and is expected to be completed by January 2020. FY 2018 Navy operations and maintenance funding in the amount of $31,630,520; and FY-17 other Navy procurement in the amount of $7,150,259 will be obligated at time of award. Contract funds in the amount of $31,630,520 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Naval Sea Systems Command of Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity. (Source: DOD 03/08/18)