Spearhead course EPF (Image: Austal United States)
Austal United States, Mobile, Alabama, is being granted a $261,776,539 adjustment to a previously-awarded Navy agreement for the information layout and also building and construction (DD&C) of the 13th and also 14th Expeditionary Fast Transport (EPF) ships. The adjustment consists of alternatives that, if worked out, would certainly bring its collective worth to $370,733,399.
According to the Department of Defense: “This modification will award the DD&C effort for EPF 13 and EPF 14 and definitize and subsume the long-lead-time material undefinitized contract actions for EPFs 13 and 14. Note: the funding obligated covers the DD&C award and also definitizes the UCAs — which results in a total greater than the face value of the award.”
The EPF course offers high-speed, shallow-draft transport capacity to sustain the intra-theater maneuver of employees, materials and also tools for the united state Navy, Marine Corps, and also Army.
Work is anticipated to finished by July 2022. Fiscal 2018 shipbuilding and also conversion (Navy) financing in the quantity of $134,609,225; and also financial 2019 shipbuilding and also conversion (Navy) financing in the quantity of $161,815,453 will certainly be obliged sometimes of honor and also will certainly not run out at the end of the existing .
The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, District of Columbia, is the having task.
