Geurts: Navy issues RFP to analyze savings in two-ship carrier buy

By Lee Hudson / March 23, 2018 at 4:21 PM
The Navy is taking the first concrete step toward a two-ship carrier purchase by releasing a request for proposals last week to Huntington Ingalls Industries' Newport News Shipbuilding to analyze the potential cost savings. Navy acquisition executive Hondo Geurts told reporters during a March 19 roundtable at the Pentagon that in keeping with the National Defense Strategy, the service developed an acquisition plan to combine CVN-80 and CVN-81 procurements. "This opportunity for a two-ship contract is dependent on significant savings...

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