
The Navy awarded Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII] a $936 million modification June 29 to exercise a fiscal year 2020 option to build the third Arleigh Burke-class DDG-51 destroyer of the year, DDG-135. The award announcement said the modification also includes options for engineering change proposals, design budgeting requirements and post-delivery availabilities on the fiscal 2020 option ship. If the options are exercised, the total value of the FY ’20 option ship would rise to $948 million. Work will largely occur…