Austal USA, Mobile, Ala., is awarded a $12,341,187 cost-plus-fixed-fee and cost-only modification to previously awarded contract N00024-17-C-2301 to exercise an option for littoral combat ship (LCS) industrial post-delivery availability support for USS Santa Barbara (LCS 32). Work will be performed in Mobile (90%); and Pittsfield, Mass. (10%), and is expected to be completed by December 2022. Fiscal 2018 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) funds in the amount of $2,200,000 (55%); and fiscal 2022 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) funds in the amount of $1,800,000 (45%) 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, 03/09/22)