Timken Gears Awarded $74 Million Modification to Contract

Timken Gears & Services Inc. is being awarded a $74,451,888 modification to a previously awarded contract (N00024-10-C-2310) to exercise an option to procure three DDG 51 class main reduction gear (MRG) shipsets. 
MRGs will be used for Arleigh Burke (DDG 51) class guided-missile destroyers procured in fiscal 2012 and 2013. The equipment procured via this acquisition effort will be provided as government-furnished equipment to the DDG 51 class shipbuilders. Work will be performed in Santa Fe Springs, Calif. (68 percent); Riverside, Mo. (10 percent); New Castle, Del. (7 percent); Latrobe, Pa. (2 percent); St. Augustine, Fla. (1 percent); Spring Grove, Ill. (1 percent); Fitchburg, Mass. (1 percent); Corry, Pa. (1 percent); Erie, Pa. (1 percent); King of Prussia, Pa. (1 percent); Antigo, Wis. (1 percent); and other various locations with less than one percent (6 percent). Work is expected to be completed by March, 2015. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Sea Systems Command in Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity.