BIW’s Year 4 option for LCS plans

General Dynamics-Bath (Maine) Iron Works is awarded a $33,592,059 cost-plus-award-fee modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-14-C-4313) to exercise Option Year Four for the accomplishment of the planning yard support services for both variants of the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) class of ships. This option exercise is for planning yard services for both Freedom and Independence variant in-service ships. BIW is the sole planning yard providing engineering, planning, ship configuration, material and logistics support to maintain and modernize both variants. Work will be performed in Maine, and is expected to be completed by August 2019. Naval Sea Systems Command of Washington, D.C. is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD 08/08/18) Gulf Coast Note: Austal USA of Mobile, Ala., builds the Independence variant of LCS. BIW builds the Freedom class.