Navy DDG(X) team-build contract

The push to develop the Navy’s next-generation destroyer may involve teamwork between General Dynamics' Bath (Maine) Iron Works and HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Miss., if the Navy and the Senate Armed Services Committee have their way. Instead of competing for the primary contract to build DDG(X), the Navy wants the two shipyards to take a page from the teaming agreement between General Dynamics' Electric Boat (Conn.) and HII’s Newport News (Va.) Shipbuilding in the design and construct of the Columbia-class nuclear ballistic missile submarine, officials told USNI News. The SASC released its FY 2023 authorization bill on July 17, which has language directing the Navy to pursue the teaming agreement for DDG(X) - without naming either shipyard. But the Navy wants the arrangement for those two shipyards, USNI News understands. (Source: USNI News 07/21/22) Senate, Navy Pushing for Bath Iron Works, Ingalls DDG(X) Destroyer Team Up - USNI News 

DoD contract 07/22/22 

Navy DDG(X) team-build contract

Bath (Maine) Iron Works (BIW) and Huntington Ingalls Industries' Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Miss., are being awarded cost-plus-award-fee, cost-plus-fixed-fee, and firm-fixed-price contracts for shipbuilder engineering and design analysis in order to produce design products in support of the Guided Missile Destroyer (DDG(X)) preliminary design and contract design. The specific contract award amounts for these requirements is considered source-selection sensitive information (see 41 U.S. Code 2101, et seq., Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 2.101 and FAR 3.104) and will not be made public at this time. BIW work will be performed in Bath/Brunswick, Maine (99%); and Washington, D.C. (1%), and is expected to be completed by July 2023. Ingalls' work will be performed in Pascagoula (84%); Avondale, La. (12%); and Newport News, Va. (4%), and is expected to be completed by July 2023. If all options are exercised, work will continue through July 2028 for each respective contract. Fiscal 2022 research, development, test and evaluation funds will be obligated at time of award for each contract, and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. These contracts were not competitively procured and are awarded without full and open competition per 10 U.S. Code 2304(c)(3), Industrial Mobilization; Engineering, Development, or Research Capability; or Expert Services. Naval Sea Systems Command Headquarters, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD, 07/22/22)

HII-Pascagoula media release HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding Awarded DDG(X) Design Engineering Contract - Huntington Ingalls Industries