HII wins up to $471.97M Navy contract

Newport News-based Fortune 500 contractor Huntington Ingalls Industries has won a Navy contract worth up to $471.97 million to provide engineering support for Nimitz-class and Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers.

The Department of Defense (also known as the Department of War) said on Monday that the award tasks HII with engineering, technical work, design, integrated logistics support, configuration management, database management and modernization and ship change document development.

While the initial cost-plus-fixed-fee contract award is $91.89 million, it includes options that, if exercised, would bring its cumulative value to $471.97 million.

HII will perform about 96% of the work in Newport News. The rest will take place in Portsmouth and Bremerton, Washington.

The DOD said the contract was not competitively procured, as HII is the nation’s sole designer and builder of the Gerald R. Ford-class.

The contract work is expected to be completed by November 2030.

Last year, Newport News Shipbuilding, a division of HII, announced it would, for the first time, build two Gerald R. Ford-class carriers simultaneously in the same dry dock.

NNS delivered the first-in-class USS Gerald R. Ford to the Navy in May 2017. The second-in-class, John F. Kennedy, is scheduled to be delivered to the Navy in March 2027, after missing both a June 2024 and 2025 deadline. The USS Enterprise is expected to be delivered to the Navy in 2029, while USS Doris Miller is expected to be delivered in 2032.