
Austal USA won a contract potentially worth up to $3.2 billion for the detail design and construction (DD&C) of up to seven of the new T-AGOS(X) ocean surveillance ships, now called T-AGOS-25 ships, according to a May 18 contract announcement. The contract starts as the DD&C for the first in the new class of auxiliary general ocean surveillance ships with a value of $114 million. It includes options for the DD&C of up to seven T-AGOS-25 ships along with special…