Huntington Ingalls Wins USS George Washington Defueling Job

Huntington Ingalls Inc., Newport News, Virginia, is being awarded a $49,6 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for fiscal 2014 advance planning to prepare and make ready for the defueling work on USS George Washington (CVN 73).

This effort will provide for advanced planning, ship checks, design, documentation, engineering, procurement, fabrication and preliminary shipyard or support facility work to prepare for the defueling work.

Work will be performed in Newport News, Virginia, and is expected to completed by July 2015.

Fiscal 2014 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) funding in the amount of $49,646,289 will be obligated at the time of the award. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.

The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, District of Columbia, is the contracting activity.