Lockheed Martin awarded $10.6 million for LCS 5 PSA

USS Milwaukee (LCS 5)

JULY 11, 2016 — Lockheed Martin, Mission Systems and Training, Baltimore, MD, is being awarded $10,676,521 for cost-plus-award-fee order ER06 against a previously awarded basic ordering agreement (N00024-15-G-2303) to provide engineering and management services for Littoral Combat Ship LCS-5 Post Shakedown Availability (PSA).  

Lockheed Martin in the Prime Contractor for the Freedom Class LCS variants, which are built at Fincantieri Marine Group’s Marinette Marine shipyard.

Lockheed Martin will provide engineering and management services in support of the following:

1. 40,000 man-hours level of effort and to provide the work specification, pre-fabrication, and material for LCS-5 PSA;
2. a stern ramp capable of accepting continuous stowage of an 11 meter Rigid hull inflatable Boat and the associated technical impact statement package;
3. additional berthing capacity and
4. a reverse osmosis plant modification.  

Work will be performed in New York, New York (60 percent); Baltimore, Maryland (33 percent); and Marinette, Wisconsin (7 percent), and is expected to be completed by March 2017.  

Fiscal 2016 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) and fiscal 2016 other procurement (Navy) funding in the amount of $10,676,521 will be obligated at time of award and $550,000 is expiring at the end of the current fiscal year.  

The Supervisor of Shipbuilding, Conversion, and Repair, Bath, Maine, is the contracting activity.