Contract: Austal, $14.7M

Austal USA, Mobile, Ala., is being awarded a $14,656,227 modification to a previously awarded contract (N00024-11-C-2301) to exercise options for post-delivery support of littoral combat ships USS Gabrielle Giffords (LCS 10) and USS Omaha (LCS 12). Austal will perform the planning and implementation of deferred design changes that have been identified during the construction period. The corrections and upgrades are necessary to support sail-away and follow-on post-delivery test and trials period. Work will be performed in Mobile (70 percent); Pittsfield, Mass. (20 percent); and San Diego, Calif. (10 percent), and is expected to be complete by July 2017. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD, 03/01/16)