Contract: Austal, $8.6M

Austal, Mobile, Ala., is being awarded a $8,629,606 cost-plus-award-fee order against a previously awarded basic ordering agreement (N00024-15-G-2304) to provide engineering and management services for advance planning and design in support of the post shakedown availability for the littoral combat ship USS Jackson (LCS-6). Work will be performed in Mobile (75 percent); and San Diego, Calif. (25 percent), and is expected to be completed by September 2017. The Supervisor of Shipbuilding, Conversion, and Repair Gulf Coast, Pascagoula, Miss., is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD, 08/31/16)