Austal
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Austal is an Australian-based global ship building company and defence prime contractor that specialises in the design, construction and support of defence and commercial vessels.
Its American subsidiary, Austal USA, is under contract for multiple programs that include building Independence class littoral combat ships for the U.S. Navy, which are 127-meter-long vessels at a cost of $360 million per unit. Austal also has an active $3.3 billion contract for building 11 patrol cutters for the U.S. Coast Guard.