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Austal Wins $262 Million Mod For EPF-13 and -14; Unfunded Priorities List Converts EPF-14 To Medical Ship

Wednesday, March 27th, 2019

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Austal Wins $262 Million Mod For EPF-13 and -14; Unfunded Priorities List Converts EPF-14 To Medical Ship

The U.S. Navy’s Expeditionary Fast Transport vessel USNS City of Bismarck (EPF-9) is launched in Mobile, Ala. On June 7, 2017. (Photo: David Stoltz, U.S. Navy).

The Navy awarded Austal USA a $262 million modification on Tuesday for the detail design and construction (DD&C) of the 13th and 14th Expeditionary Fast Transport (T-EPF) ships while the service also requested extra funds to convert EPF-14 in to a medical vessel. This both covers the DD&C efforts for the two ships and definitizes and subsumes the long long-lead time material for undefinitized contract actions (UCAs) for T-EPF-13 and 14. The Navy noted since this contract modification covers both…

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