The Defense Department said Tuesday the Naval Sea Systems Command obligated the full amount of the modification from the service branch’s fiscal 2017 shipbuilding and conversion funds at the time of award.
HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding business will perform contract work at a facility in Virginia through January 2024.
The company will research, design, develop and engineer the CVN 80 carrier under a potential $152 million contract the Navy awarded in May 2016.