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July 8, 2009
Repairs to collision sub to cost another $21.6 million
General Dynamics, Electric Boat Corp., Groton, Conn., is being awarded a $21,600,000 modification to previously awarded delivery order N00024-08-G-6321 for off-hull fabrication of the port retractable bow plane, and material procurement and off-hull fabrication of the sail for the nuclear submarine USS Hartford (SSN 768). Work will be performed in Groton, Conn., (30 percent) and Quonset Point, R.I., (70 percent), and is expected to be completed by January 2010. Contract funds in the amount of $21,600,000 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington Navy Yard, D.C., is the contracting activity.
The Hartford was damaged in a collision with the USS New Orleans in the Strait of Hormuz on March 19.
Prior to the modification announced today, the contract for the repairs to the submarine was a $15,800,000 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract
July 8, 2009
Repairs to collision sub to cost another $21.6 million
General Dynamics, Electric Boat Corp., Groton, Conn., is being awarded a $21,600,000 modification to previously awarded delivery order N00024-08-G-6321 for off-hull fabrication of the port retractable bow plane, and material procurement and off-hull fabrication of the sail for the nuclear submarine USS Hartford (SSN 768). Work will be performed in Groton, Conn., (30 percent) and Quonset Point, R.I., (70 percent), and is expected to be completed by January 2010. Contract funds in the amount of $21,600,000 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington Navy Yard, D.C., is the contracting activity.
The Hartford was damaged in a collision with the USS New Orleans in the Strait of Hormuz on March 19.
Prior to the modification announced today, the contract for the repairs to the submarine was a $15,800,000 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract