Electric Boat Gets Sub Funds

Electric Boat Corp., Groton, Conn., is being awarded a $1,503,050,893 modification to its FY04-FY08 Virginia class multi-year contract, which provides funding for FY05 multi-year ship (SSN 780), Advance Procurement (AP) funding for FY06 multi-year ship (SSN 781), and Economic Order Quantity funding for FY06-08 multi-year ships (SSN 781-783). Electric Boat will continue to subcontract with Northrop Grumman's Newport News Shipbuilding. Work will be performed in Groton, Conn. (30 percent), Quonset Point, R.I. (15 percent), Newport News, Va. (15 percent), with other efforts performed at various sites throughout the United States (40 percent), and work is expected to be completed by April 2014. 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. (N00024-03-C-2101)