Austal USA, Mobile, Ala., is being awarded $12,283,922 for cost-plus-award-fee delivery order 7F18 against previously awarded basic ordering agreement N00024-15-G-2304 to provide engineering and management services for advance planning and design in support of the post shakedown availability for the littoral combat ship USS Omaha (LCS-12). Work will be performed in Mobile (75 percent); and San Diego, Calif. (25 percent), and is expected to be completed by August 2018. This delivery order was awarded in accordance with 10 U.S. Code 2304(c)(1) – only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements. The Supervisor of Shipbuilding, Conversion, and Repair Gulf Coast, Pascagoula, Miss., is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD, 09/06/17)