BAE Systems Jacksonville Ship Repair LLC, Jacksonville, Florida, was awarded a $25,079,996 cost-plus-award-fee modification on to exercise an option to previously awarded contract N00024-20-C-2320 for the accomplishment of post shakedown availability for Freedom-variant littoral combat ship LCS 21. Work will be performed in Mayport, Florida, and is expected to be completed by Sept. 30, 2022. Fiscal 2021 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) funding in the amount of $10,568,942 (42%) will be obligated at the time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity. (Awarded Sept. 10, 2021)

BAE Systems Southeast Shipyards keeps ships shipshape by the seashore in the southeast. No easy tongue twister, the company (formerly Atlantic Marine Holding Company) offers vessel maintenance, repair, overhaul, assembly, and other services to the US Navy and commercial maritime customers. The company’s three shipyards, located along the Gulf of Mexico and the East Coast, are based in Mobile, Alabama; Jacksonville, Florida; and Mayport, Florida. Its Alabama yard features a submersible heavy-lift barge and two floating dry docks, which give workers access to an entire vessel without having to haul it onto land. BAE Systems Inc. acquired the company in mid-2010 from private equity firm J.F. Lehman & Co. (www.dnb.com)