MOBILE, Ala. — Austal USA obtained a contract, valued at $10.8 million, awarded by the Navy for emergent upkeep drydocking availability of USS Oakland (LCS 24). To carry out the contract, Austal USA will use its newly licensed floating dry dock, situated at Austal USA’s San Diego waterfront ship restore facility. 

“This contract award is a big milestone for Austal USA and a testomony to the exhausting work and dedication of our crew in reaching dry dock certification,” mentioned Austal USA President Gene Miller. “Now we’ve got the potential to offer full-service dry-dock assist for prolonged, year-long repairs. An extra dry dock in San Diego provides the Navy better capability to finish advanced upkeep initiatives and emergent repairs in a devoted dry-dock facility. That is precisely the kind of work we constructed this facility for, and we sit up for demonstrating the distinctive high quality and effectivity that our clients have come to anticipate from Austal USA.”

This contract requires Austal USA’s restore and companies crew to interchange the ship’s important service diesel generator.  This can be a advanced mission requiring important work under the waterline, making the brand new dry dock important to its profitable completion. Performing the work in a dry dock, moderately than pierside, will considerably enhance effectivity and can assist return the ship to the fleet as rapidly as attainable and in peak working situation. Offering dry dock capability in San Diego presents crew stability by permitting them to stay of their homeport close to their households, whereas holding the ship near the Navy’s San Diego-based upkeep crew.

The dry dock has a 9,000 gentle ton lifting capability. It’s 531 toes (162 meters) lengthy and 154 toes (47 meters) extensive, with a wingwall width of 13.12 toes (4.0 meters) and a most draft of 36 toes (11 meters). The dry dock cranes have a mixed lifting capability of 16 metric tons.

From Austal USA, Sept. 16, 2026