To foster efficiency competitive operations and quality ship construction repair and reconfiguration in small shipyards across the united states in addition to fostering employee skills and enhanced…

Marine Group Boat Works, LLC received a $248,402.50 Project Grant award from the Maritime Administration under the Assistance to Small Shipyards program (CFDA 20.814), effective August 19, 2025, with a completion date of August 18, 2027. The grant funds the purchase and installation of a Flow Mach 500 waterjet metal cutting table at the company's Chula Vista, California shipyard facility. This equipment acquisition represents a capital improvement designed to enhance operational efficiency and production capacity in metal fabrication operations supporting ship construction and repair activities.

The waterjet cutting table serves as a primary deliverable under the grant and is intended to increase operational efficiency within the shipyard's manufacturing processes. The Assistance to Small Shipyards program, which provides capital improvement funding to qualified small shipyards, supports this equipment investment as part of a broader federal initiative to foster competitive operations, quality ship construction and repair, and enhanced employee productivity across the domestic maritime industrial base. Marine Group Boat Works meets program eligibility requirements as a small business operating a single shipyard in a maritime community.

To foster efficiency competitive operations and quality ship construction repair and reconfiguration in small shipyards across the united states in addition to fostering employee skills and enhanced productivity related to shipbuilding ship repair and associated industries this grant is for the purchase and installation of a flow mach 500 waterjet metal cutting table deliverables are a flow mach 500 waterjet metal cutting table which will increase efficiency in within the shipyard intended beneficiary is marine group boat works LLC there are no subrecipient activities