Shipbuilder Giants Bath Iron Works and Huntington Ingalls Awarded Strategic DDG(X) Design Modifications

Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine (N00024-22-C-2318); and Huntington Ingalls Inc. (HII), Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi (N00024-22-C-2319); are each awarded a cost-plus-award-fee modification to previously awarded contracts to exercise options for the accomplishment of shipbuilder engineering and design analysis and products in support of the Guided Missile Destroyer (DDG(X)). The specific modification award amounts for these requirements are considered source-selection sensitive information (see 41 U.S. Code 2101, et seq., Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 2.101 and FAR 3.104) and will not be made public at this time. Work will be performed in Bath, Maine (99%); and Washington, D.C. (1%), and is expected to be completed by July 2025. 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 2025. If all options are exercised, work will continue through July 2028 for each contract. Fiscal 2024 research, development, test and evaluation funds will be obligated at time of award for each contract and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. These contracts were not competitively procured and were awarded without a full and open competition per 10 U.S. Code 2304(c)(3), Industrial Mobilization; Engineering, Development, or Research Capability; or Expert Services. Naval Sea Systems Command Headquarters, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity.