HII Wins LCS Planning Yard Contract Worth a Possible $931.7 Million

PASCAGOULA, Mississippi — Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Ingalls
Shipbuilding division has been awarded a cost-plus-award-fee contract with a
potential total value of $931.7 million for planning yard services in support
of in-service littoral combat ships (LCS), the company said in a May 1 release.
The contract, which includes options over a six-year period, also provides work
packages for HII’s Technical Solutions division.

“Ingalls Shipbuilding will build on 35 years of planning
yard experience to join our Technical Solutions division in fully supporting
this life-cycle work on the LCS program,” Ingalls Shipbuilding President Brian
Cuccias said. “Our talented shipbuilding team has the resources and program
management experience necessary to ensure the post-delivery work on the LCS
program meets the requirements and missions of our U.S. Navy customers.”

The planning yard design services contract will provide
the LCS program with post-delivery life-cycle support, which includes fleet
modernization program planning, design engineering and modeling, logistics
support, long-lead-time material support, and preventative and planned
maintenance system item development and scheduling. Unique to this planning
yard effort is the requirement to manage the scheduling of all planned,
continuous and emergent maintenance and associated availabilities.

Most
of the work will be accomplished in Pascagoula and Hampton, Virginia, by
designers, engineers, logisticians, planners, program managers and a variety of
additional subject matter experts. Ingalls and Technical Solutions will also
provide waterfront support in the LCS homeports.