Navy Awards LCS Contract

The U.S. Navy awarded Marinette Marine a contract modification in order to “preserve production capability” for the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program. The Business Journal reports that Marinette Marine was part of a team with Lockheed Martin that built one of the first two LCS ships for the Navy. The Navy plans to award two more ships and it was believed that only one of the two teams that had built a ship each would qualify for this next order. This contract action prevented Marinette Marine from cutting back on its work force, hence the preserving part. There is still no guarantee that the company will get further LCS work but it keeps the option open.

It takes money to spend money

The Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) is the organization within DoD that actually pays the bills. Eventually every contract action will lead to DFAS sending money to the company doing the work. SAIC has won a contract to build software to train the DFAS employees on policies and regulations. See a story here.

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