Contract: Austal USA, $10.6M

Austal USA, Mobile, Ala., is awarded a $10,605,201 cost-plus-fixed-fee and cost-only modification to previously awarded contract N00024-17-C-2301 to exercise an option for littoral combat ship industrial post-delivery availability support for USS Canberra (LCS 30). Work will be performed in Mobile (80%); and Pittsfield, Mass. (20%), and is expected to be completed by May 2022. Fiscal 2021 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) funds in the amount of $5,000,000 will be obligated at time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD, 06/17/21)