Bath Iron Works (BIW), Bath, Maine (N00024-22-C-2318); and Huntington Ingalls Inc., Ingalls Shipbuilding (Ingalls), Pascagoula, Miss. (N00024-22-C-2319), are being awarded cost-plus-award-fee, cost-plus-fixed-fee, and firm-fixed-price contracts for shipbuilder engineering and design analysis in order to produce design products in support of the Guided Missile Destroyer (DDG(X)) preliminary design and contract design. The specific contract award amounts for these requirements is considered source-selection sensitive information (see 41 U.S. Code 2101, et seq., Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 2.101 and FAR 3.104) and will not be made public at this time. BIW work will be performed in Bath/Brunswick, Maine (99%); and Washington, D.C. (1%), and is expected to be completed by July 2023. Ingalls work will be performed in Pascagoula (84%); Avondale, La. (12%); and Newport News, Va. (4%), and is expected to be completed by July 2023. If all options are exercised, work will continue through July 2028 for each respective contract. Fiscal 2022 research, development, test and evaluation funds will be obligated at time of award for each contract, and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. These contracts were not competitively procured and are awarded without full and open competition per 10 U.S. Code 2304(c)(3), Industrial Mobilization; Engineering, Development, or Research Capability; or Expert Services. The Naval Sea Systems Command Headquarters, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00024-22-C-2319). (Source: DoD, 07/22/22)