Contract: Austal, $11M

Austal USA, Mobile, Ala., is being awarded an $11,038,412 cost-plus-award-fee order against the previously awarded basic ordering agreement (N00024-15-G-2304) to provide engineering and management services for advance planning and design in support of the post shakedown availability for the littoral combat ship Pre-Commissioning Unit Jackson (LCS-6). Austal will provide design, planning, and material support services for the vessel. Efforts will include program management, advance planning, engineering, design, material kitting, liaison, and scheduling. Work will be performed in Mobile (77 percent); and Fairfax, Va. (23 percent), and is expected to be completed by September 2016. Fiscal 2015 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) funding in the amount of $10,363,723 will be obligated at time of award and will not expire at the end of this fiscal year. The Supervisor of Shipbuilding, Conversion, and Repair-Gulf Coast, Pascagoula, Miss., is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD, 04/16/15)