HII's 3rd LHA mod pact $145M

PASCAGOULA, Miss.- Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) announced June 17 that its Ingalls Shipbuilding division here has received a third contract modification from the Navy for $145M to provide long-lead-time material and advance procurement activities for amphibious assault ship LHA 9. This modification brings the total advance funding for LHA 9 to $350M. “This advance procurement contract will help protect the health of our supplier base and strengthen our efforts to efficiently modernize the nation’s amphibious fleet as we continue to build amphibious ships for the Navy,” Ingalls Shipbuilding President Brian Cuccias said. Ingalls is the sole builder of large-deck amphibious ships. The shipyard delivered its first amphibs - Iwo Jima-class USS Tripoli (LPH 10) - in 1966. Since that date, HII-Pascagoula has built five Tarawa-class (LHA 1) ships, eight Wasp-class (LHD 1) ships and the first in a new class of amphibious assault ships, America (LHA 6), in 2014. The second ship in that class, Tripoli (LHA 7), was delivered to the Navy this year. Bougainville (LHA 8) is under construction. (Source: HII 06/17/20)