Contract: Austal, $248.9M

Austal USA, Mobile, Ala., is being awarded a $248,898,142 fixed-price, incentive firm target modification to previously awarded contract N00024-16-C-2217 to definitize the long lead time material of the undefinitized contract action, and to award the procurement of the detail design and construction of the 11th and 12th Expeditionary Fast Transport (EPF) vessels (formerly Joint High Speed Vessel). The EPF vessels will provide high-speed, shallow-draft transportation capability to support the intra-theater maneuver of personnel, supplies, and equipment for the Navy, Marine Corps and Army. Work will be performed in Mobile (59 percent); Novi, Mich. (8 percent); Fairfax, Va. (7 percent); Houston, Texas (3 percent); Warminster, Pa. (3 percent); Chesapeake, Va. (2 percent); Gulfport, Miss. (2 percent); Milwaukee, Wisc. (2 percent); overseas (4 percent); and various places below one percent (10 percent), and is expected to complete by March 2020. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD, 09/15/16)