Electric Boat Awarded Contract

Electric Boat Corporation, Groton, Conn., is being awarded a $42.8m cost-plus-fixed-fee modification under previously awarded contract for consolidated planning yard, engineering and technical support for nuclear submarines. The modification will provide support for the material aspects of submarine design/configuration change programs and submarine research, development, test, and evaluation. Work will be performed in Groton, Conn. (74 percent); Quonset, R.I. (17 percent);Newport, R.I. (6 percent); Bangor, Wash. (1 percent); and Kings Bay, Ga. (2 percent), and is expected to be completed by December 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity.