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Contract Award: Gibbs & Cox Inc. (Arlington, Virginia) – $36,747,326

Gibbs & Cox Inc., Arlington, Virginia, is awarded up to a $36,747,326 cost-plus-award-fee and cost-plus-fixed-fee modification to a previously awarded contract (N00024-22-C-2313) to exercise options for supporting surface combatant ship design and engineering efforts for the Navy's Future Surface Combatant Force, primarily in support of the DDG(X) program, as well as other emerging ship concepts, and to conduct feasibility studies as part of supporting the broader Navy fleet. Work will be performed in Washington, D.C. (60%); Arlington, Virginia (35%); Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (5%), and is expected to be completed by February 2025. Fiscal 2023 and 2024 research, development, test and evaluation (Navy) funds in the amount of $7,258,924 will be obligated at time of award, and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00024-22-C-2313).

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