Austal modification pact: $13.1M

Austal USA of Mobile, Ala., is awarded a $13,197,241 cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed-price, and cost-only modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-17-C-2301) for Littoral Combat Ship class design services and integrated data and product model environment (IDPME) support. Austal USA will provide efforts to support LCS class ships, including but not limited to technical analyses, non-recurring engineering, configuration management, software maintenance and development, production assessments, and diminishing manufacturing sources and sea-frame reliability analysis. Austal USA will also maintain an IDPME that will enable the Navy to access enterprise data management, visualization, program management applications, and network management and control. Work will be performed in Mobile, Alabama (60%); and Pittsfield, Mass. (40%), and is expected to be complete by June 2025. FY 2016 Navy shipbuilding and conversion; FY-18 other Navy procurement; and FY-19 Navy research, development, test, and evaluation funding in the amount of $13,197,241 will be obligated at time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Naval Sea Systems Command of Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity. (DoD 06/21/19)