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Electric Wins $91M Contract for Submarines from US DoD

  • 12:00 AM, October 27, 2011
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Electric Boat Corp., Groton, Conn., is being awarded a $91,151,493 cost-plus-fixed-fee modification (P00012) to previously awarded contract (N00024-10-C-2118) for lead yard services efforts related to Virginia-class submarines. Work will be performed in Groton, Conn. (91.1 percent); Newport News, Va. (4 percent); Quonset, R.I. (3.5 percent); and Newport, R.I. (1.4 percent). Work is expected to be completed by September 2012. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity.
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