La. firm awarded FMS boat pact

Metal Shark Aluminum Boats of Jeanerette, La., was awarded a $15,309,410 Navy contract for the construction of 7-meter rigid hull inflatable boats (RHIBs) in support of future Foreign Military Sales (FMS) requirements. The contract is to procure boats in a flexible baseline configuration that can be rapidly adapted and delivered to support specific FMS case requirements. The RHIBs support a range of missions including search and rescue, and insertion and extraction of forces. The work will be done in Jeanerette and is expected to be completed by February 2019. (Source: DOD 03/16/15)