HII Awarded $1.4B for LPD 28

Huntington Ingalls Industries, Pascagoula, Mississippi, is being awarded a $1,463,276,000 fixed-price-incentive modification to a previously awarded contract (N00024-16-C-2431) for the procurement of the detail design and construction of USS Fort Lauderdale (LPD 28). Work to be performed is the detail design and construction of LPD 28, the 12th ship in the LPD 17 amphibious transport dock ship class. The previously awarded LPD 28 advance procurement and long lead time material efforts, funded in the amount of $269,736,574, have been subsumed into the total price of the LPD 28.Work will be performed in Pascagoula, Mississippi (72 percent); Crozet, Virginia (3 percent); Beloit, Wisconsin (2 percent); Brunswick, Georgia (1 percent); and Milwaukee, Wisconsin (1 percent), with other efforts performed at various sites throughout the U.S. (21 percent). Work is expected to be completed by October 2021. Fiscal 2015 and 2016 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) funding in the amount of $1,173,539,426 will be obligated at the time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, District of Columbia, is the contracting activity.