Ships
Austal USA is honored to be prime contractor of several major U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard shipbuilding programs: the Coast Guard's Herritage-class Offshore Patrol Cutter (OPC) and the Navy's TAGOS-25 ocean surveillance ship, Landing Craft Utility (LCU) vessel, Expeditionary Medical Ship (EMS), Auxilliary Floating Dry Dock Medium (AFDM), Navajo-class towing, salvage and rescue ship (T-ATS), Independence-variant Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), and the Expeditionary Fast Transport (EPF). Austal is also building modules for the Virginia- and Columbia-class submarine programs and aircraft elevators for the Ford-class aircraft carriers.