Contract: Austal, $8.4M

Austal USA LLC, Mobile, Ala., is being awarded an $8,440,860 cost-plus-fixed-fee modification to a previously awarded contract (N00024-11-C-2301) to exercise an option for Littoral Combat Ship Core Class Services. Austal USA LLC will assess engineering and production challenges, as well as develop, evaluate costs and schedule risks for engineering change proposals and class baseline documentation in support of production efforts. Work will be performed in Mobile (60 percent) and Pittsfield, Mass. (40 percent), and work is expected to be completed October 2015. Fiscal 2014 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) funding in the amount of $8,440,860 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, District of Columbia, is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD, 10/14/14)