Well, here’s an absolutely
fascinating bit of Navy contract news.
“Huntington Ingalls Inc., Pascagoula, Mississippi, is
being awarded a $12,511,359 cost-plus-award-fee contract modification to
previously awarded contract N00024-12-C-4323 to provide long lead-time material
procurement and planning yard services for CG-47-class cruisers and DD
963-class destroyers.“
The DD-963 class is the
Spruance class and, as far as I know, they’ve all been converted to uni-directional
diving submarines.
I don’t know if this is some
kind of outdated cut and paste error or what.
I know there’s waste and fraud in the Department of Defense but working
on non-existent ships seems a bit over the top!
Do any of you have any idea
what this is referring to?
USS Paul F Foster is still in operation as a Ship Self Defense Ship. She is a Spruance, albeit non-deployable.
ReplyDeleteThat should be ex-Paul F Foster. Technically she is no longer a USS.
DeleteAh, good catch! I'd forgotten about the test ship. Thanks!
DeleteTwo interesting things:
ReplyDeleteA) The Tico's need yard work that requires long lead time materiels
and
B) The Spru-Cans are referred to in the plural.
B makes me think this is a typo of some sort.
Too bad. With the current submarine environment out there a modernized Spruance would be a useful ship to have around.
Bait ships? http://www.g2mil.com/bait.htm
ReplyDeleteNo, probably too innovative for our Admirals.
I believe Ingalls is the planning yard for the CG-47, as it was for the DD-963, so this is probably just a standard renewal of that standing contract for the ongoing services associated with being the planning yard ("long lead time procurement" and "planning yard services").
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