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U.S. Navy Awards GD $106 Million Advance Procurement Contract for Fifth Expeditionary Mobile Base

Wednesday, June 1st, 2016

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U.S. Navy Awards GD $106 Million Advance Procurement Contract for Fifth Expeditionary Mobile Base

The USNS Lewis B. Puller, (T-ESB 3), the first Expeditionary Mobile Base in the formerly Mobile Landing Platform program. (Photo: General Dynamics)

General Dynamics [GD] was awarded a $106 million contract by the U.S. Navy to procure long lead time material and engineering support for the Expeditionary Mobile Base 5 (ESB-5), formerly known as the Mobile Landing Platform Afloat Forward Staging Base program.In 2011, the Navy awarded GD a contract to design and build the first two ships in the new Mobile Landing Platform (MLP) program, the USNS Montford Point and USNS John Glenn. The program expanded to a third unit, reconfigured…

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