Northrop Grumman awarded $2.4 billion contract for USS Roosevelt Aircraft Carrier upgradation

Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding, Inc has signed a $2.4 billion cost-plus-incentive-fee contract for accomplishment of the Refueling Complex overhaul of the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71). This effort shall provide for the accomplishment of the overhaul, alterations, repair, maintenance, and refueling. Work will be performed in Newport News, Va., and is expected to completed by February 2013. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington Navy Yard, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00024-09-C-2107).