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Navy/USMC

Austal Lodges Protest Over HII’s LCS Planning Yard Services Win

Wednesday, May 22nd, 2019

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Austal Lodges Protest Over HII’s LCS Planning Yard Services Win

The Independence-variant USS Manchester (LCS-14) littoral combat ship completing acceptance trials in Dec. 2017. (Photo: U.S. Navy courtesy of Austal USA).

Austal USA filed a protest with the Government Accountability Office (GAO) this week against a recent Navy $932 million award to Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII] for Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) planning yard services. In late April the Navy awarded HII the contract to support modernization work that covers technical, planning, ship configuration, data, and logistics lifetime support required for the in-service LCSs (Defense Daily, May 1). Upon award on May 1, HII elaborated that the contract provides the LCS program…

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