Huntington
Ingalls Industries announced that its Ingalls Shipbuilding division
has been awarded an $83.3 million cost-plus-award-fee contract from
the U.S. Navy for continued life-cycle engineering, modernization and
support services on the U.S. Navy's fleet of USS Ticonderoga-class (CG
47) Aegis guided missile cruisers. The contract is the first of five
options which, if exercised, would place the total value of the contract
at $468.2 million. |
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"This award builds on the U.S. Navy's confidence
in the versatility we have as a shipbuilding company in not only building
quality warships, but also in providing life-cycle and modernization
support," said Bob Merchent, Ingalls' vice president, surface combatants
and U.S. Coast Guard programs. "This contract validates Ingalls
Shipbuilding's long-standing reputation for excellence in fleet sustainment
and in building CG 47-class ships. Obviously it takes the efficiency
and skill of our shipbuilders to accomplish these efforts, and I'm confident
they will demonstrate quality performance on this important project
for these surface combatants."
Ingalls, as lead shipbuilder for the Aegis cruiser program, delivered
19 of the 27 Ticonderoga-class ships between 1982 and 1994. The CG 47-class
cruisers represent a significant portion of the Navy's surface combatants,
and the modernization effort will increase their service life and war-fighting
capability for another 20 years. Ingalls will perform the work in Pascagoula
and provide waterfront support in U.S. Navy ports in Norfolk, Va.; Mayport,
Fla.; San Diego; Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and Yokosuka, Japan.
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