HII gets Navy's contract modification for SSN 762 work

Huntington Ingalls Industries Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, Virginia, was awarded a $14,541,714 modification to previously awarded contract N00024-15-C-4301 for the exercise of an option for new work, including the planning for new work, arising from changes to the availability work package for the submarine USS Columbus (SSN 762) engineering overhaul, the DoD reported in contract annoucements.

Work will be performed in Newport News, Virginia, and is expected to be completed by May 2019.  Fiscal 2016 operation and maintenance (Navy) funding in the amount of $500,000 will be obligated at time of award and will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Supervisor of Shipbuilding, Conversion and Repair, Newport News, Virginia, is the contracting activity.

Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) is an American shipbuilding company formed on March 31, 2011 as a spin-off of Northrop Grumman. Formerly known as Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding (NGSB), it was created on 28 January 2008 by the merger of Northrop Grumman's two shipbuilding sectors, Northrop Grumman Ship Systems and Northrop Grumman Newport News. The Company 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 nearly 38,000 in Virginia, Mississippi, Louisiana and California, its primary business divisions are Newport News Shipbuilding and Ingalls Shipbuilding.