CVN-21 Concept(click for alternate view) Super-carriers may be cheaper than building the same amount of aircraft and mission capacity via smaller carriers, but they aren’t cheap. Just how expensive, however, has recently become an item of some debate. Speciality...
ITT Federal Services International Corp. in Colorado Springs, CO received a $74.4 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract as part of the Total Army Communications — Southwest Asia, Central Asia and Africa (TAC-SWACAA) contract. In this component of the contract,...
Basic Nuclear Propulsion(click to expand) Bechtel Plant Machinery Inc. in Pittsburgh, PA received a $166.3 million cost-plus-fixed-fee modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-02-C-2102) for naval nuclear propulsion components. Work will be performed in...
MQ-8B Fire Scout(click to view full) Northrop Grumman Systems Corp in San Diego, CA is being awarded an $8.3 million modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-fixed-fee contract (N00019-00-C-0277) for shipboard testing of the RQ-8 Fire Scout Vertical Takeoff...
CVN 75 Harry S Truman(click to view full) DID’s article re: costing the CVN-21 Class noted the lifetime cost role played by mid-life refuelings and “incremental availabilities.” As part of the Nimitz Class super-carrier USS Harry S. Truman’s...