NEWPORT NEWS--Northrop Grumman has been awarded a contract valued at $25 million from the Navy for the preparation and completion of a dry dock continuous maintenance of the USS Albany.
The submarine arrived at the Newport News shipyard Tuesday morning.
According to a company release, the company's shipbuilding sector in Newport News is the prime contractor and will provide advance planning, design, engineering, procurement, ship-checks, fabrication and preliminary shipyard work. It will also provide necessary alterations, repairs, maintenance, modernization, testing and routine work required to return the submarine to the fleet.
Work is expected to be completed by the end of July.
Newport News is one of only two U.S. shipyards capable of building nuclear-powered submarines and since the early 1990s, has completed over 200 ship repair projects for the U.S. government, U.S.-flag commercial and foreign-flag commercial ships, ranging from paint repair to complete hull and machinery renovation.
USS Albany is the 43rd nuclear-powered fast-attack submarine of the Los Angeles class. The submarine was built by the Newport News shipyard and delivered to the Navy in 1990. USS Albany was Newport News' last submarine to slide down the incline of a wooden shipway during its christening on June 13, 1987.
