Austal USA awarded $13.3 million for LCS 6 post delivery support

MOBILE, Ala. – Austal USA was awarded a $13,398 million cost-plus-award-fee order against the previously awarded Basic Ordering Agreement to provide supplies, services, labor and material in support of the pre-shock trials emergent availability for the Littoral Combat Ship PCU Jackson (LCS 6). Work will be performed in Mayport, Fla., and is expected to be completed by June 2016. Funding in the amount of $10,742,991 will be obligated at time of contract order release. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Supervisor of Shipbuilding, Conversion and Repair Gulf Coast, Pascagoula, Miss., is the contracting activity.

This order is for execution of LCS 6’s emergent availability to be conducted prior to Full Ship Shock Trials.  Austal will provide supplies, services, labor and material for the emergent availability.  Efforts will include program management, test plan and Integrated Master Schedule development, and work package execution and testing.

Austal has a $3.5 billion block-buy contract from the U.S. Navy to build 10 Littoral Combat Ships and a separate $1.6 billion block-buy contract from the Navy to build 10 Expeditionary Fast Transports (EPF) – formerly Joint High Speed Vessels.