COLUMBIA Class Ballistic Missile Submarines IPPD design completion

General Dynamics Electric Boat Corp (GDEB)., Groton, Connecticut, is being awarded a $5,071,534,074 Cost-Plus-Incentive-Fee with special incentives contract for the Integrated Product and Process Development (IPPD) design completion for the COLUMBIA Class Ballistic Missile Submarines (SSBNs). The contract also includes component and technology development, Missile Tube Module and Reactor Compartment Bulkhead prototyping and manufacturing efforts, and UK Strategic Weapon Support System kit manufacturing for the COLUMBIA Class Fleet Ballistic Missile Submarines (SSBNs). This contract includes foreign military sales to the United Kingdom. Fiscal 2017 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy), Fiscal 2017 research, design, test & evaluation, (Navy), and United Kingdom (UK) funding in the amount of $175,101,310 will be obligated at the time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured in accordance with 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(1). The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00024-17-C-2117).