AMSEC Wins U.S. Navy Logistics Support Services Contract


VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., Oct. 1, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) announced today that its AMSEC LLC subsidiary has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Navy to provide integrated logistics support services for hull, mechanical and electrical (HM&E) technical data development, maintenance and management.

AMSEC was awarded a five-year, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract that has a combined value of $36.7 million if fully funded and all options are exercised. Services and products include technical data systems development and maintenance, electronic publishing support, technical manual development, supply support, logistics processes and analysis, systems engineering and training/curriculum development. Tasking will also include design, development, testing and fielding support for technical data integration efforts as well as technical data conversion, management and distribution.

AMSEC's work will be performed primarily at its offices in Newport News, with support from AMSEC's other locations in Pennsylvania, California, Washington and Hawaii. The work is expected to be completed by April 2020.

"We have an outstanding relationship with our customer that has developed over many years of providing them with world-class logistics and information technology services, and we will continue to foster that relationship," said William Rumschlag, AMSEC's division manager of information technology and data management solutions.

AMSEC has more than 2,000 employees at 35 locations worldwide. AMSEC's expertise includes marine engineering, naval architecture, shipyard industrial planning and design, HM&E and C4I installation and support, and waterfront systems testing and maintenance. AMSEC's knowledge spans across life-cycle integrated logistics services, including technical manual development, network, data and inventory management, instructional system design, and mobile training solutions. AMSEC is a certified CMMI-Level 3 provider of enterprise software design and development, cyber security, database and web services.

Huntington Ingalls Industries is America's largest military shipbuilding company and a provider of manufacturing, engineering and management services to the nuclear energy, oil and gas markets. For more than a century, HII's Newport News and Ingalls shipbuilding divisions in Virginia and Mississippi have built more ships in more ship classes than any other U.S. naval shipbuilder. Headquartered in Newport News, Virginia, HII employs approximately 37,000 people operating both domestically and internationally. For more information, visit:

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