
The UNITED STATE Navy on June 20 launched an upgraded ask for propositions (RFP) for the FFG( X) information style as well as building (DD&C) agreement for the initial 10 guided-missile frigates (one base ship as well as 9 alternative ships).
The RFP attends to a complete as well as open competitors as well as will certainly lead to an agreement granted to one business.
The Navy intends to honor an agreement for FFG( X) DD&C in 2020.
The FFG( X) will certainly have multi-mission capacity to carry out air war, anti-submarine war, surface area war, digital war as well as details procedures. Offerors that reply to the DD&C solicitation should suggest an FFG( X) style based upon a moms and dad ship style that has actually been with manufacturing as well as showed completely range mixed-up. Under united state regulation, FFG( X) should be integrated in a residential shipyard.
The Navy launched a draft FFG( X) DD&C RFP to sector on March 1 as well as held an Industry Day occasion on March 19. Through these communications, the Navy obtained responses from sector that notified the changed RFP launched June 20
To get to the Navy’s complete need of 20 frigates a 2nd agreement is intended closer to 2025 for the following 10 ships to make certain even more exact prices on out-year ships. This will certainly be past the 6 years prepared for this preliminary agreement.
FFG( X) is a nimble, multi-mission plat