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Thursday, February 28, 2013

Navy approves $40m for shipyard to prep the Lincoln

USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) |The Navy freed up $40 million to allow shipyard workers to continue to prepare the Abraham Lincoln, while the aircraft carrier sits in Norfolk awaiting its midlife refueling and overhaul.

The flat top was supposed to steam into Newport News Shipbuilding for the major tune-up on Valentine's Day, kicking off a multi-billion-dollar, four-year project. But the Navy postponed signing a contract for the work because of budgetary uncertainty.

However on Wednesday afternoon, the Naval Sea Systems Command extended an advanced planning contract for the prep work on the Lincoln, adding the $40 million while noting that the "work will take place at Naval Station Norfolk because of a delay in awarding the (refueling and complex overhaul) due to the continuing resolution."

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