Austal: $16M LCS mod contract

Austal USA of Mobile, Ala., was awarded a $16,303,195 cost-plus-fixed-fee, cost-only, and firm-fixed-price modification to a previously awarded contract (N00024-17-C-2301) for Littoral Combat Ships class design services and integrated data and product model environment (IDPME) support. Austal USA will provide class design products, including but not limited to technical analyses, non-recurring engineering, configuration management, software maintenance and development, production assessments, and diminishing manufacturing sources and seaframe reliability analysis. Austal USA will also maintain an IDPME that shall enable Navy access to enterprise data management, visualization, program management applications, network management and control. Work will be performed in Mobile (60%); Pittsfield, Mass. (40); and is expected to be completed by June 2019. FY 2014 Navy shipbuilding and conversion; FY-18 other Navy procurement; and Navy operations and maintenance funding in the amount of $16,303,195 will be obligated at time of award, and funds in the amount of $1,590,331 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Naval Sea Systems Command of Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity. (Source: DOD 06/21/18)