Austal USA, Mobile, Ala., was awarded an $11,424,232 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 Augusta (LCS 34). Work will be performed in Mobile (90%); and Pittsfield, Mass. (10%), and is expected to be completed by September 2023. Fiscal 2022 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) funds in the amount of $6,000,000 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. (Awarded August 31, 2022) (Source: DoD, 09/02/22)