Strength Beneath the Waves: $18.4B to Build SSN 812, SSN 813 and Bolster U.S. Shipyards
General Dynamics Electric Boat Corp., Groton, Connecticut (N00024-12-C-2115, N00024-17-C-2100, N00024-17-C-2117); and Huntington Ingalls Inc., Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, Virginia (N00024-15-C-2114, N00024-16-C-2116, and N00024-21-C-2106), are awarded cost-plus-incentive-fee with ceilings, and cost-plus-fixed-fee contract modifications for construction of two fiscal 2024 Virginia-class submarines (SSN 812 and SSN 813), investments to improve productivity at the shipyards, and for nuclear-powered vessel programs workforce support and investment. General Dynamics Electric Boat Corp. is being awarded $12,418,145,463, and if all options are exercised the total value will be $17,152,265,971; and Huntington Ingalls Inc., Newport News Shipbuilding, is being awarded $1,293,694,000. These contracts include options which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of the contract change to $18,445,959,971. The awarded amounts include previously announced material awards (including long lead time material and economic ordering quantity material) totaling $2,103,896,000. Work will be performed in Groton, Connecticut (32%); Newport News, Virginia (32%); Quonset Point, Rhode Island (8%); Sunnyvale, California (4%); Goose Creek, South Carolina (2%); Mobile, Alabama (1%); Sykesville, Maryland (1%); Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (1%); and other locations less than 1% (19%), and is expected to be completed by June 2036. Fiscal 2024 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) funding in the amount of $5,263,038,425; and fiscal 2025 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) funding in the amount of $4,163,000,000, 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.
