MartinMike Nartker
NS&D Monitor
1/17/2014
The Department of Energy is in negotiations with former DOE official Dan Lehman on a new sole-source contract to help improve project management at the Department’s Office of Science. The contract is estimated to…
Sarah SalemHuntington Ingalls Industries’ (HII) Newport News Shipbuilding division has won a $56 million Navy contract to provide engineering and design support for the AUKUS nuclear-powered submarine program, the company said Oct. 13.
The contract includes an option that…
Sarah SalemHuntington Ingalls Industries’ (HII) Newport News Shipbuilding division has won a $56 million Navy contract to provide engineering and design support for the AUKUS nuclear-powered submarine program, the company said Oct. 13.
The contract includes an option that would increase its cumulative value to $91 million if exercised, HII said in a press release.
AUKUS is the trilateral framework between the U.S., Australia and the United Kingdom to supply nuclear-powered submarines and other nuclear information and technologies to Australia.
Under the Foreign Military Sales portion of the award, Newport News Shipbuilding will continue providing support to the United Kingdom and Australia in areas including technology insertion, engineering, supply chain and workforce development, and digital transformation.
The contract also covers the United States Industry Support effort, under which Newport News engineers and designers will support development of the SSN-AUKUS nuclear-powered attack submarine that will be built by the U.K. and Australia, the release said.
