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Sept. 6 (UPI) -- The destroyer USS Michael Murphy will undergo upgrades under a $32.1 million contract awarded by the U.S. Navy this week. Pacific Shipyards International is to execute the fiscal 2020 selected restricted availability of the Michael Murphy, with includes a combination of maintenance, modernization and repair, the Department of Defense announced on Thursday.
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The contract calls for a "short-term," non-docking availability, with the company providing both facilities and human resources for the work, which is to be performed in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and finished by April 2020.
The contract includes options that could increase its value to $39.1 million, though all work would still be expected for completion by next April.
The Arleigh Burke-class ship, commissioned in 2012 and named after a Hawaii-based Navy SEAL member who died in Afghanistan and posthumously received the Congressional Medal of Honor, will undergo unspecified maintenance, modernization and repair.
The USS Michael Murphy returned to its home port of Honolulu in August after 92 eventful days at sea.
The vessel participated in UNITAS, a two-week multinational maritime exercise, with 11 other nations, this year hosted by Brazil; it rescued five stranded Peruvian mariners off the coast of Ecuador who had gone without food for five days and water for three days, and helped the U.S. Coast Guard contain a speedboat found to be carrying 2,100 pounds of cocaine, leading to the arrest of three alleged smugglers.
