HII & Northrop Grumman Awarded Navy Contracts

In the latest announcement of US Department of Defense, Navy, contracts, Huntington Ingalls Inc. and Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. are awarded diverse orders as follows:

Nuclear submarine valves
Huntington Ingalls Inc., Newport News, Va., is being awarded a $7,319,933 cost-plus-fixed-fee modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-12-C-2101) for planning and design yard functions for standard Navy valves in support of nuclear-powered submarines. Work will be performed in Newport News, Va., and is expected to be completed by September 2014.

The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity.

Ring laser gyro navigation systems
Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Charlottesville, Va., is being awarded an $8,917,999 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, cost-plus-fixed-fee, performance based contract for the procurement of engineering and technical services consisting of parts procurement, repair, field, and marine repair services, software, and engineering support for the AN/WSN-7/7A Ring Laser Gyro Navigation (RLGN) systems, AN/WSN-7B Ring Laser Gyrocompass (RLGN), Integrated Bridge System (IBS)/Voice Management System and Navigation and Search Radar Systems. 

This contract includes options which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value (ceiling) of the contract to an estimated $27,526,385. 

Work will be performed in Charlottesville, Va., (85 percent); Charleston, S.C., (10 percent); and other locations outside the continental United States (5 percent).  Work is expected to be completed by October 2014. 

Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic, Charleston, S.C., is the contracting activity.