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  • Austal USA christens USNS Lansing, the final EPF

    Austal USA christens USNS Lansing, the final EPF The final U.S. Navy Expeditionary Fast Transport Ship — the future USNS Lansing (EPF 16) — was christened April 10 at Austal USA’s Mobile, Ala. shipyard. The christening marked a major milestone in the Spearhead-class EPF program, which has delivered vital high-speed, shallow-draft transport capability to the…

  • Austal USA lays keel of its first OPC: Pickering (WMSM 919)

    Austal USA lays keel of its first OPC: Pickering (WMSM 919) Austal USA yesterday hosted a keel laying ceremony for Pickering (WMSM 919), the first U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) Heritage-class Offshore Patrol Cutter (OPC) to be built at the company’s Mobile, Ala., shipyard. Pickering (WMSM 919). is being built under a contract that includes up…

  • Austal gets USD 100 million in Australian EFA funding for Mobile shipyard expansion

    Austal gets USD 100 million in Australian EFA funding for Mobile shipyard expansion In a filing yesterday, Austal Limited (ASX: ASB) reported the execution of a loan agreement forUSD 100 million in funding from Export Finance Australia (EFA), the Australian Government’s exportcredit agency, to enhance the construction of vessels for the U.S. Navy and U.S.…

  • Austal USA and Master Boat partner up

    Austal USA and Master Boat partner up Two Alabama-based shipbuilders, Austal USA and Master Boat Builders Inc. have entered into a memorandum of understanding establishing a strategic outsourcing partnership designed to expand U.S. shipbuilding capacity by increasing the ability of proven, regional shipyards to take on large, complex programs for the U.S. government. The agreement…

  • USCG awards Austal USA $314M for OPC long lead time materials

    USCG awards Austal USA $314M for OPC long lead time materials Austal Limited (ASX: ASB) reports that the United States Coast Guard has exercised options with its Austal USA subsidiary worth US$314 million (The contract options approve Austal to order long lead time materials LLTM) for another three Offshore Patrol Cutters (OPCs), Austal USA’s fourth…

  • Austal USA gets $273M for next OPC as build of first starts

    Austal USA gets $273M for next OPC as build of first starts Austal Limited (ASX: ASB) reports that its Austal USA subsidiary has received a $273 million contract option award from the United States Coast Guard (USCG) for the construction of the second Stage 2 Heritage-class Offshore Patrol Cutter (OPC) and the acquisition of long…

  • Austal USA delivers future USS Pierre (LCS 38)

    Austal USA delivers future USS Pierre (LCS 38) Austal USA delivered the future USS Pierre (LCS 38) to the U.S. Navy this past Friday, the second ship delivered by the Mobile, Ala., shipbuilder to the Navy in less than a month. LCS 38 is the 19th Independence-variant Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) delivered by the company…

  • Hanwha Group gets U.S. clearance to up its stake in Austal

    Hanwha Group gets U.S. clearance to up its stake in Austal South Korea’s Hanwha Group has been eyeing an acquisition of Austal USA parent Austal (ASX ASB) for quite some time. Today, it appeared to be making some progress. Yonhap News Agency reports Hanwha Group as saying today that it has received approval from the…

  • Detyens awarded $10.1M contract for USNS Cody PSA

    Detyens awarded $10.1M contract for USNS Cody PSA Detyens Shipyards Inc., Charleston, S.C., has been awarded a $10,135,702 firm-fixed-price contract (N3220525C4061) for a 100-calendar day shipyard availability for a post-shakedown availability (PSA) of the Military Sealift Command’s expeditionary fast transport USNS Cody (T-EPF 14). The PSA contract includes a base period and five unexercised options…

  • Austal USA awards FMD key TAGOS-25 contracts

    Austal USA awards FMD key TAGOS-25 contracts Fairbanks Morse Defense (FMD), a portfolio company of Arcline Investment Management (Arcline), reports that it has received purchase orders from Austal USA covering the supply of critical equipment for the U.S. Navy’s next-generation TAGOS-25 program. The equipment will be supplied by FMD’s American Fan, Federal Equipment Company (FEC),…

  • Austal USA gets $48M mod to LCS maintenance contract

    Austal USA gets $48M mod to LCS maintenance contract Austal USA LLC, Mobile, Ala., is being awarded a $48,020,435 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract modification (P00006) under a previously awarded contract (N40345-22-D-8000) to exercise Option Year Two for emergent repair and continuous maintenance for littoral combat ships deployed to the Western Pacific and Indian Oceans and the…