Contract: Austal USA, $6.7M

Austal USA, Mobile, Ala., is being awarded a $6,726,406 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-11-C-2301) for fabrication and assembly of a live fire test module in support of the Navy's Independence variant littoral combat ship survivability testing program which is critical to class qualifications and ships eventual deployment. Work will be performed in Mobile and is expected to be completed by March 2015. Fiscal 2013 research, development, test and evaluation funding in the amount of $6,726,406 will be obligated at the time of award and will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Supervisor of Shipbuilding Gulf Coast, Pascagoula, Miss., is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD, 04/02/14)