The Department of Defense announced this week that Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, was awarded two Navy contracts worth over $57 million. One contract is for Littoral Combat Ship-class design services and the other is for fleet maintenance and support

Under a previously awarded basic ordering agreement for fleet maintenance sustainment support for fiscal 2014, Bath Iron was awarded a $28.7 million delivery order. Work will be performed in San Diego and is expected to be completed by September. The Southwest Regional Maintenance Center in San Diego is the ordering/contracting activity. 

Bath Iron was also awarded a $28.7 million undefinitized contract action modification to a previously awarded contract for LCS-class design services. LCS-class design services provide necessary engineering, program and technical support for LCS-class ships. This includes class baseline design services, class documentation services, class engineering studies and interim support services. Work will be performed in Bath (54 percent); Pittsfield, Mass. (45 percent); and Mobile, Ala. (1 percent). Work is expected to be complete by May 2015. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity.