According to the U.S. DoD said in a contract announcements list Huntington Ingalls Industries, Huntington Ingalls Inc., Pascagoula, Mississippi, is being awarded a $12,168,588 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-12-C-2312) to exercise options for DDG 51 class follow yard services (FYS).
The FYS provides necessary engineering, technical, material procurement and production support; configuration; class flight upgrades and new technology support; data and logistics management; lessons learned analysis; post-delivery tests and trials; post-shakedown availability support; reliability and maintainability; system safety program support; material and fleet turnover support; shipyard engineering team; turnkey; crew indoctrination, design tool/design standardization, detail design development, and other technical and engineering analyses for the purpose of supporting DDG 51 class ship construction and tests and trials. Work will be performed in Pascagoula, Mississippi (97 percent), and Washington, D.C. (3 percent), and is expected to be completed by May 2015.
Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) designs, builds and maintains nuclear and non-nuclear ships for the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard and provides after-market services for military ships around the globe. For more than a century, HII has built more ships in more ship classes than any other U.S. naval shipbuilder. Employing more than 37,000 in Virginia, Mississippi, Louisiana and California, its primary business divisions are Newport News Shipbuilding and Ingalls Shipbuilding.