
The Navy awarded Austal USA a $230.5 million contract modification on May 3 to build the Spearhead-class Expeditionary Fast Transport ship (EPF)-16. This award is exercising an option for detail design and construction of EPF-16, with 63 percent of the work to occur at the company’s shipyard in Mobile, Ala. The construction work is expected to be finished by October 2025. Austal USA has previously delivered 12 EPFs. In a statement, the company noted all 12 were on schedule and…