USA: GENERAL DYNAMICS AWARDED CONTRACT FOR DETAIL DESIGN.

IPR Strategic Business Information Database, October, 2005

General Dynamics Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, is being awarded a $223,262,430 cost-plus-award-fee/incentive-fee modification to exercise an option under previously awarded contract (N00024-03-C-2310) for detail design and construction of one Flight 0 Littoral Combat Ship (LCS).[sz] The LCS will be a networked, agile, and high-speed surface combatant with versatile war-fighting capabilities, optimized for littoral missions.[sz] Work will be performed in Mobile, Ala.

(50 percent), Pittsfield, Mass. (33 percent), Bath, Maine (15 percent), and Baltimore, Md. (2 percent), and are expected to be completed by October 2007.[sz] Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.[sz] The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity.