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SSN 757: ICEX-07
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General Dynamics Electric Boat Corp. in Groton, CT received a $46.7 million firm-fixed-price delivery order under previously awarded multiple award indefinite delivery/ indefinite-quantity contract (N00024-04-D-4408) for the FY 2007 docking and selected restricted availability of the Improved Los Angeles Class attack submarine USS Alexandria (SSN 757). Electric Boat will perform advance planning, design documentation, engineering, procurement, ship-checks, fabrication and preliminary shipyard work and/or any other work necessary to prepare for and accomplish the necessary alterations and repairs, maintenance, testing and routine work. Work will be performed in Groton, CT and is expected to be complete by September 2007. Contract funds in the amount of $30.9 million will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Sea Systems Command in Washington, DC is the contracting activity.

The 7,100 ton Alexandria will soon be familiar to the public, thanks to a cameo role in the film “Stargate: Continuum,” as the submarine surfaces through ice in the Beaufort Sea near the North Pole. Barry L. Campbell, the head of operations at the U.S. Navy Arctic Submarine Laboratory in San Diego, originally presented the idea to Executive Producer N. John Smith at a Stargate convention in Vancouver, Canada. He ended up with a speaking part in the film, an interesting task for the crew to execute during ICEX-07, and great publicity for the service on a show with a reputation for military respect and verisimilitude.