Austal Usa, LLC

Austal USA, LLC, a foreign-owned, for-profit manufacturer and prime contractor headquartered in Mobile, Alabama, designs, constructs, maintains, and modernizes naval vessels for the U.S. Navy, with primary focus on Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) lifecycle support, maintenance, repair, and modernization work performed predominantly on full-and-open competition without set-asides. The company operates as a subsidiary of Australian defense contractor Austal Limited.

Austal USA's federal footprint centers on Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) work. The top five customer agencies by award count account for 93 percent of recent awards and include NAVSEA (344 awards, $23.25 billion combined potential value), Military Sealift Command (274 awards, $37.1 million), U.S. Pacific Fleet Forces (125 awards, $115.5 million), Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime (88 awards, $2.9 million), and Defense Logistics Agency Aviation (62 awards, $1.4 million). However, by potential value, the U.S. Coast Guard anchors a secondary concentration with two awards valued at $3.32 billion, while NAVSEA dominates the portfolio. Concrete representative work spans a $2.647 billion multiple-award IDIQ with NAVSEA for maintenance, repair, and modernization of LCS vessels homeported in San Diego through May 2030; a $151.999 million cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract with NAVSEA for submarine industrial base investment support; a $10.659 million cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order for LCS 38 emergent test and trials labor and material; and a $6.596 million cost-plus-award-fee delivery order for LCS 36 flight deck safety nets. The company also holds a $350,000 single-award IDIQ with Defense Logistics Agency for packing assembly and cylinder assembly manufacturing.

Austal USA's capability portfolio reflects its dual role as a large-scale naval shipbuilder and comprehensive maintenance provider. Prime work emphasizes preventative and planned maintenance, continuous and emergent maintenance, corrosion control, drydocking availabilities, fly-away team support, ship riders, and engineering services for LCS and Joint High Speed Vessel platforms. The company also supplies specialized maritime components—bearings, bushings, sleeves, hydraulic cylinders, accumulators, switches, washers, pins, and anodes—through individual purchase orders. Recent awards include a $19.233 million delivery order for USS OMAHA (LCS-12) fiscal year 2025 selected restricted availability, a $4.946 million delivery order for LSA 38 maintenance and support labor, material, and travel, a $3.094 million delivery order for USS CINCINNATI (LCS-20) port visit support in Singapore, and a $2.378 million delivery order for LCS ship riders and on-site representative support. The company frequently performs work in Singapore, San Diego, and other domestic and international locations supporting Navy operations in the Indo-Pacific region.

Activity has grown substantially: from 111 awards in 2022 to 208 in 2024, then declining to 90 in 2025 and 10 year-to-date in 2026 (reflecting a partial-year snapshot). Nine awards with combined potential value of $330.7 million face ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure. The prime-versus-sub split shows 82 percent prime awards (787 total) and 18 percent sub awards (170 total), indicating Austal USA operates predominantly as a prime contractor. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, the vendor delivered negligible FTE presence (1.2 FTEs in FY2022, zero in FY2023–FY2024) with zero invoiced revenue captured in SCI, suggesting Austal USA's federal work is dominated by goods procurements and delivery orders that fall below the SCI reporting threshold or outside SCI scope (goods, classified work, or military-specific contracting).

Named teaming includes subcontract relationships with General Dynamics Mission Systems, Inc. (on LCS Independence Class in-service engineering and life cycle support for combat systems), Epsilon Systems Solutions Inc. (on USS Kansas City and USS Charleston ride control repairs), Leidos, Inc. (on operations and sustainment material procurement), Huntington Ingalls Inc. (on CVN 80/81 design and construction, and RCOH advanced planning), Electric Boat Corporation (on submarine coupons and propulsion unit work), and Vigor Marine LLC (on USS Gabrielle Giffords repair). Top parent vehicles include Indefinite Delivery Contract N4034522D8000 (152 task orders, $116.9 million), IDC N3220513D2001 (137 task orders, $4.1 million), IDC N3220519D6701 (103 task orders, $8.1 million), IDC N0002421D4443 (69 task orders, $114.2 million), and Basic Ordering Agreement N0002415G2304 (28 task orders, $298 million). Work spans NAICS 336611 (Ship Building and Repairing; 475 awards) and 811219 (Other Electronic and Precision Equipment Repair and Maintenance; 242 awards), with PSC primary codes for non-nuclear ship repair (West) and maintenance/repair of ship and marine equipment. Austal USA operates one named subsidiary, Austal USA Service LLC, also foreign-owned and for-profit.