Contract: Austal USA, $11.6M

Austal USA, Mobile, Ala., is awarded an $11,581,420 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 Kingsville (LCS 36). Work will be performed in Mobile (90%), and Pittsfield, Mass. (10%), and is expected to be completed by March 2024. Fiscal 2019 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) funds in the amount of $2,000,000 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, 09/28/22)