Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc., Newport News Shipbuilding Division, Newport News, Virginia, is awarded a $17,176,332 cost-plus-fixed fee, cost-plus-incentive fee contract (N42158-20-C-0003) for maintenance and modernization on board U.S. Navy aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) during the fiscal 2020 extended carrier incremental availability at Norfolk Naval Shipyard. This information was released on the U.S. Defense Government website on June 1, 2020.
Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc., Newport News Shipbuilding Division, Newport News, Virginia, is awarded a $17,176,332 cost-plus-fixed fee, cost-plus-incentive fee contract (N42158-20-C-0003) for maintenance and modernization on board U.S. Navy aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) during the fiscal 2020 extended carrier incremental availability at Norfolk Naval Shipyard. This information was released on the U.S. Defense Government website on June 1, 2020.
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USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) steams underway in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. (Picture source U.S. Navy)
Work will be performed in Portsmouth, Virginia (88%); Newport News, Virginia (11%); and Norfolk, Virginia (1%), and is expected to be complete by February 2021. Fiscal 2020 operations and maintenance (Navy) funding in the amount of $17,176,332 will be obligated at time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.
The USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) is the eighth Nimitz-class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy. It was launched on 7 September 1996 by Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, Virginia, and commissioned on 25 July 1998 with Captain Thomas Otterbein in command.
The Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier has a length of 1,092 feet (333 m) long, 257 feet (78 m) wide, and is as high as a twenty-four-story building, at 244 feet (74 m). This aircraft carrier can accommodate approximately 90 aircraft and has a flight deck 4.5 acres (1.8 ha) in size, using four elevators that are 3,880 sq ft (360 m2) each to move planes between the flight deck and the hangar bay. With a combat load, HST displaces almost 97,000 tons and can accommodate 6,250 crew members.
The USS Harry S. Truman is armed with three 20 mm Phalanx CIWS mounts, two MK 57 Mod 3 Sea Sparrow SAM (ship-borne short-range anti-aircraft and anti-missile weapon system launchers and two RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile.
As of January 2020, USS Harry S. Truman is deployed in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations to support maritime security in the Middle East.
