Constellation-Class Frigate Project Gets $64.9 Million Upgrade with Marinette Marine’s Latest Contract Modification

Marinette Marine Corp., Marinette, Wisconsin, was awarded a $64,939,319 cost-plus-fixed-fee and cost-only modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-20-C-2300) to exercise an option for engineering and class support requirements in support of detail design and construction of the Constellation-class guided-missile frigate. Work will be performed in Arlington, Virginia (35%); Marinette, Wisconsin (30%); Camden, New Jersey (15%); Millersville, Maryland (13%); Columbus, Ohio (1%); Chicago, Illinois (1%); Mathews, Louisiana (1%); Evans, Georgia (1%); Hanrahan, Louisiana (1%); Chesapeake, Virginia (1%); and Arvonia, Virginia (1%); and is expected to be completed by August 2025. Fiscal 2023 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) funds in the amount of $380,157; and fiscal 2024 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) in the amount of $37,500,000, will be obligated at time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington D.C., is the contracting activity. (Awarded Aug. 30, 2024.)