US Navy awards three warship maintenance contracts worth over $320 million in a single day
Vigor Marine, BAE Systems and Austal USA won depot-level modernization and repair work for a destroyer and two littoral combat ships, with completion dates in 2028.
The Pentagon announced three depot-level ship maintenance contracts on Monday. Vigor Marine received a $222.5 million firm-fixed-price award for the maintenance, modernization and repair of the destroyer USS Gridley in Seattle under a fiscal 2027 Depot Modernization Period, scheduled for completion in December 2028. BAE Systems won $56.6 million for the littoral combat ship USS Cincinnati's dockwide repair availability in San Diego, finishing in April 2028 after a two-way competition, and Austal USA took $43.4 million for the USS Canberra, completing in February 2028 against four bidders.
Three awards in one day, under two different procurement mechanisms, underscore that depot-level maintenance is a permanent, recurring contract stream rather than occasional work — always bundled with configuration documentation, quality assurance and logistics tasks. The pattern is relevant to Indonesia, where the defence ministry has moved to consolidate MRO spending into state-owned defence companies and require that depot-level know-how transfer with every new major weapons purchase. Completion of all three US contracts stretches into 2028, keeping the industrial workload on the books for years.