Technology Firms Assist Navy Shipbuilding
According to Pascagoula Mississippi Press, while the welders, fitters and engineers at Northrop Grumman work on the ships that will soon form the nucleus of the Navy's updated surface fleet, two companies are providing critical shipbuilding assistance. El Segundo, Calif.,-based Computer Science Corp.'s Advanced Marine Unit in Pascagoula and Gautier-based Omni Engineering are working under contracts with the Navy's Supervisor of Shipbuilding, Conversion and Repair, to provide support with evaluating and analyzing ship designs and engineering plans and monitoring various parts supply chains for the ships. In two cases, the companies are partnered under joint contracts on certain shipbuilding programs.
$37M Navy Engineering Contract Awarded
DDL OMNI Engineering LLC, McLean, Va., is being awarded a 37,604,423 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, cost-plus-fixed-fee (completion) contract for submarine and surface ship scientific engineering and technical support services in the area of ship signatures and non-propulsion electronic systems. Work will be performed in McLean, Va. (56%); Waterford, Conn. (29%); Carderock, Md. (11%); and Norfolk, Va. (4%), and is expected to be completed by May 2008. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, Bethesda, Md., is the contracting activity. (N00167-03-D-0031)
