BIW Lands LCS Deal

The Navy on Friday awarded Bath Iron Works a contract worth up to $100 million for modernization work on both variants of the Littoral Combat Ship.

The contract officially makes Bath Iron Works, owned by General Dynamics and headquartered in Bath, Maine, the single planning yard for LCS. Under the terms of the contract, Bath Iron Works will provide engineering, planning, ship configuration, material and logistics support to maintain and modernize both variants of the class.

The $9.8 million cost-plus-award-fee contract includes options that, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of the contract to $100.4 million.

Work will be performed in Bath and is expected to be completed by August 2015.