Newport News Shipbuilding Wins USS Enterprise Defueling and Inactivation Contract

Huntington Ingalls, Inc., Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, Va., is being awarded a $10,725,398 cost-plus-fixed fee contract modification (N62793-07-C-0001) for continuation of fiscal 2012 advance planning efforts to prepare for the defueling and inactivation of USS Enterprise (CVN 65).

This effort will provide for advanced planning, ship checks, design, documentation, engineering, long lead time material procurement, fabrication and preliminary shipyard or support facility work to prepare for and make ready for the defueling and inactivation of CVN 65.

Work will be performed in Newport News, Va., and is expected to complete by September 2013. Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Supervisor of Shipbuilding Conversion and Repair, Newport News, Va., is the contracting activity.

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Shipbuilding Tribune Staff, August 2, 2012; Image: huntingtoningalls