Newport News Shipbuilding Preps for USS Enterprise Defueling

Newport News Shipbuilding Preps for USS Enterprise Defueling

Huntington Ingalls Inc., Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, Va., is being awarded a $33,734,943 cost-plus-fixed fee contract modification to previously awarded contract (N62793-07-C-0001) for continuation of fiscal year 2013 advance planning efforts to prepare and make ready for the defueling and inactivation of the USS Enterprise (CVN 65).

This effort will provide for advanced planning, ship checks, design, documentation, engineering, long lead time material procurement, fabrication, preliminary shipyard or support facility and Early Start shipboard work to prepare for and make ready for the defueling and inactivation of the USS Enterprise.

Contract funds in the amount of $33,734,943 will be obligated at time of award. Contract funds in the amount of $33,734,943 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Work will be performed at Naval Station Norfolk (62.4 percent) and in Newport News, Va. (37.6 percent), and is expected to complete by June 2013.

The Supervisor of Shipbuilding Conversion and Repair, Newport News, Va., is the contracting activity.

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Press Release, December 26, 2012