Forging the Fleet: BIW and Ingalls Advance Guided Missile Destroyer Design Work

Bath Iron Works (BIW), Bath, Maine (N00024-22-C-2318); and Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc., Ingalls Shipbuilding (HII Ingalls), Pascagoula, Mississippi (N00024-22-C-2319), are each being awarded a cost-plus-award-fee modification to previously-awarded contracts to exercise options for the accomplishment of shipbuilder engineering and design analysis to produce design products in support of the Guided Missile Destroyer preliminary design and contract design. BIW work will be performed in Bath/Brunswick, Maine (99%); and Washington, D.C. (1%), and is expected to be completed by July 2026. HII Ingalls work will be performed in Pascagoula, Mississippi (84%); Avondale, Louisiana (12%); and Newport News, Virginia (4%), and is expected to be completed by July 2026. If all options are exercised, work will continue through July 2028 for each respective contract. Fiscal 2024 research, development, test, and evaluation (Navy) funds will be obligated at the time of award for each contract and will expire at the end of the current fiscal year; and fiscal 2025 research, development, test, and evaluation (Navy) funds, will be obligated at time of award for each contract and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity.