
The Navy awarded six companies contracts Friday for studies of a Large Unmanned Surface Vessel (LUSV) with a combined value of $42 million. The winners are Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII], Lockheed Martin [LMT], Bollinger Shipyards Lockport LLCS, Fincantieri Marinette Marine, Gibbs & Cox Inc., and Austal USA, with each awarded firm-fixed price contracts with individual awards worth about $7 million each. The contracts include options for engineering support that, if exercised, would raise the total combined value to $59 million.…