Update: Wicker praises LPD 31 pact

Huntington Ingalls Industries of Pascagoula, Miss., is awarded a $1,508,730,501 fixed-price-incentive modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-18-C-2406) for the procurement of the detail design and construction of Landing Platform Dock (LPD) Class 31 and the LPD 17 Flight II ship. Work will be performed in Pascagoula (82%); Crozet, Va. (3%); Beloit, Wis. (2%); and New Orleans (2%), with other combined efforts performed at various sites throughout the U.S. (11%). Work to be performed is the detail design and construction of LPD-31, the 15th ship in the LPD-17 amphibious transport dock ship class and will meet all the capability and capacity requirements for the amphibious ship replacement. Work is expected to be complete by February 2027. FY 2019 and FY-20 Navy shipbuilding and conversion funding in the amount of $532,100,000 will be obligated at award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD 04/03/20) UPDATE: The $1.5B contract for LPD 31 was praised by U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee. The award was “announced earlier than expected and (is) intended to help the Mississippi shipbuilder (to) mitigate the destabilizing effects of the coronavirus outbreak on its workforce,” according to the senator’s media release. (Seapower Magazine 04/06/20) https://seapowermagazine.org/wicker-praises-hii-contract-for-amphibious-transport-dock-ship/