Huntington Ingalls Inc. – Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Miss., is being awarded a $77,561,557 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract modification (N00024-17-C-4444) for the execution of USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62) emergent repair and restoration. This effort shall provide for the additional collision repairs as well as maintenance and modernization of USS Fitzgerald. Work will be performed in Pascagoula and is expected to be completed by January 2020. Fiscal 2018 operations and maintenance (Navy) funding in the amount of $31,630,520; and fiscal 2017 other procurement (Navy) in the amount of $7,150,259 will be obligated at time of award. Contract funds in the amount of $31,630,520 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity. (Source: 03/08/18)