Contract: Austal, $14M

Austal USA LLC., Mobile, Ala., is being awarded a $14,057,992 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-11-C-2301) to exercise options for class service efforts for the Littoral Combat Ship program. Austal USA will provide engineering and design services as well as affordability efforts to reduce LCS acquisition and lifecycle costs. Work will be performed in Mobile (72 percent) and Pittsfield, Mass. (28 percent), and is expected to be complete by December 2014. Fiscal 2013 shipbuilding and conversion, Navy and Fiscal 2014 research, development, test and evaluation contract funds in the amount of $3,984,807 will be obligated at time of award. Contract funds 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, 12/23/13)

Contract: BAE, $48.9M

BAE Systems Technology Solutions and Services, Rockville, Md., is being awarded a $48,860,666 cost-plus-fixed-fee, cost reimbursable contract for services in support of the Program Executive Office for Ships, Naval Sea Systems Command, PEO C41, and the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division. Services provided will include the design, integration, testing, installation, training, and support of shipboard Command, Control, Communications, Computers, & Intelligence (C4I) electronic communication systems for ships of the U.S. Navy. Work will be performed in St. Inigoes, Md. (50 percent); California, Md. (48 percent); Bath, Maine (1 percent); and Pascagoula, Miss. (1 percent), and is expected to be completed in June 2019. Fiscal 2011 and 2012 shipbuilding and conversion, Navy contract funds in the amount of $48,860,666 will be obligated on this award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured pursuant to FAR 6.302-1. The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity (N00421-14-C-0011). (Source: DoD, 12/23/13)

Contract: BAE, $32.9M

BAE Systems Southeast Shipyards Alabama LLC, Mobile, Ala., is being awarded a $32,946,457 firm-fixed-price contract for the regular maintenance and overhaul of USNS Supply (T-AOE 6). This contract includes two additional options which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of the contract to $42,499,988. Work will be performed in Mobile, Ala., and is expected to be completed by October 2014. This contract was competitively procured with more than 50 companies solicited and three offers received. The solicitation was posted to the Federal Business Opportunities website. U.S. Navy's Military Sealift Command, Washington D.C., is the contracting activity (N00033-14-C-7508). (Source: DoD, 12/20/13)

Contract: Multiple, $95M

JCON Group, Construction and Design, Miami, Fla. (N69450-14-D-0754); Orocon -- Carother Joint Venture 1, Oxford, Miss. (N69450-14-D-0755); Mitchell Industrial Contractors Inc., and Brasfield and Gorrie LLC, a Joint Venture, Madison, Ala. (N69450-14-D-0756); PentaCon LLC, Catoosa, Okla. (N69450-14-D-0757); TMG Services Inc., Cleveland, Ohio (N69450-14-D-0758), and Leebcor Services LLC, Williamsburg, Va. (N69450-14-D-0759); are each being awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity multiple award design-build construction contract for construction projects located primarily within the Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Southeast area of responsibility. The maximum dollar value including the base period and four option years for all six contracts combined is $95,000,000. The work to be performed provides for, but is not limited to, new construction, renovation, alteration, demolition, repair work, and any necessary design including: industrial, airfield, aircraft hangar, aircraft traffic control, infrastructure, administrative, training, dormitory, and community support facilities. JCON Group, Construction and Design is being awarded task order 0001 at $8,696,000 for the construction of an enlisted dining facility located at Naval Air Station, Meridian, Miss. Work for this task order is expected to be completed by October 2015. All work on this contract will be performed primarily within the NAVFAC Southeast AOR which includes Mississippi (48 percent), Florida Panhandle area (48 percent), and in the remainder of the NAVFAC Southeast AOR (4 percent). The term of the contract is not to exceed 60 months, with an expected completion date of December 2018. This contract was competitively procured via the Navy Electronic Commerce Online website with 51 proposals received. These six contractors may compete for task orders under the terms and conditions of the awarded contract. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southeast, Jacksonville, Fla., is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD, 12/17/13)

LCS 6 launched in Mobile

MOBILE, Ala. -- The future USS Jackson (LCS 6) launched from the Austal USA shipyard Saturday, while up in Wisconsin next week, the future USS Milwaukee (LCS 5) will launch from the Marinette Marine. These ships represent the beginning of "serial production" for the class. LCS 6 will now undergo outfitting, and test and evaluation of its major systems at the Austal shipyard. The ship's christening is planned for the spring. The LCS class consists of two variants, the trimaran design Independence variant, and the monohull design Freedom variant. The ships are designed and built by two industry teams, led by Austal USA and Lockheed Martin, respectively. Jackson is the third LCS constructed by Austal USA. (Source: NNS, 12/15/13)

Edenzon retiring next year

Irwin F. Edenzon, corporate vice president and president of Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Miss., will retire on Dec. 1, 2014, according to Huntington Ingalls Industries. Edenzon will step down as president on March 31, 2014. The HII Board of Directors has elected Brian Cuccias to succeed Edenzon in the position of corporate vice president and president of Ingalls Shipbuilding, effective April 1, 2014. Edenzon was named as Ingalls Shipbuilding president in 2011 and is responsible for all programs and operations at Ingalls Shipbuilding. Cuccias currently serves as the vice president, amphibious ship programs, for Ingalls Shipbuilding and will become vice president, program management, effective Jan. 6, 2014, until he assumes the president role in April. (Source: Huntington Ingalls Industries, 12/13/13)

Contract awarded for addition

PASCAGOULA, Miss. -- Jackson County supervisors Monday hired a grant administrator, engineer and architect for a basic skills training annex addition on Ingalls Shipbuilding's Haley Reeves Barbour Maritime Training Academy. A $1.3 million Hurricane Katrina community development block grant will fund the project. The professional services contracts were awarded to Gouras & Associates, Compton Engineering Inc. and Burk-Kleinpeter-Lunsford Engineers/Architect. (Source: Mississippi Press, 12/09/13)

Contract: Sechan, $17.2M

Sechan Electronics Inc., Lititz, Pa., is being awarded a $17,212,201 firm-fixed-priced, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for the procurement of the Target Detecting Device (TDD) MK 71 Mod 1 to support the Quickstrike Mine Improvement program. This contract will require the fabrication, assembly, integration, testing and delivering of the hardware components which constitute TDD MK 71 Mod 1. TDD MK 71 Mod 1 has been developed and fielded for use in the air-delivered Quickstrike mine shape MK 65, and is also planned for use in two additional mines: Mine MK 62 and Mine MK 63. Work will be performed in Lititz, Pa., and is expected to be completed by December 2018. The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Panama City Division, Panama City, Fla., is the contracting activity (N61331-14-D-0001). (Source: DoD, 12/09/13)

Contract: Ingalls, $39M

Huntington Ingalls Industries, Pascagoula, Miss., is being awarded a $39,051,995 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-10-C-2203) for life cycle engineering and support services on the Amphibious Transport Dock Ship Program LPD 17 class. Services to be provided include post-delivery planning and engineering, homeport technical support, Class Integrated Product Data Environment, data maintenance and equipment management, systems integration and engineering support, LPD 17 class design services, research engineering, obsolescence management, material support, emergent repair provision (including warranty enforcement), training and logistics support; LPD 17 Integrated Planning Yard support including ship alteration development and installation, material management, Fleet Modernization Program planning, availability planning, configuration data management, research engineering, logistics documentation, and other logistics and executing activity coordination, and management of all related data within the Configuration Data Manager's Database-Open Architecture. Work will be performed in Pascagoula, Miss., and is expected to be completed by December 2014. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD, 12/06/13)

Contract: Jacobs, $11.3M

Jacobs Technology Inc., Fort Walton Beach, Fla., is being awarded an $11,341,989 cost-plus-fixed-fee task order under the previously awarded General Services Administration Alliant Multiple Award contract for information technology services (GS0QBG-09-D-0059-GM01). This contract provides services for IT, information management, information assurance product service delivery mechanisms, software development, engineering and enterprise architectural compliance, server support services and information assurance compliance. The level of effort for the base year is 177,270 man hours. Work will be performed in China Lake, Calif. (82 percent); Point Mugu, Calif. (13 percent), and Norfolk, Va. (5 percent), and is expected to be completed in January 2015. The Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, China Lake, Calif., is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD, 12/05/13)

Contract: Austal, $8.2M

Austal USA, Mobile, Ala., was awarded an $8,247,342 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-11-C-2301) on Nov. 27 to exercise an option for littoral combat ship (LCS) core class services. Austal USA will assess engineering and production challenges as well as evaluate the cost and schedule risks from affordability efforts to reduce LCS acquisition and lifecycle costs. Work will be done in Mobile (60 percent) and Pittsfield, Mass. (40 percent), and is expected to be complete by November 2014. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD, 12/02/13)