Sealift to provide one U.S. vessel Capt. David I. Lyon for transportation cargo.

Sealift Inc., Oyster Bay, New York, is being awarded a $14,608,000 modification under a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N3220519C3512) to fund the fifth one-year option period.

The Motor Vessel Capt. David I. Lyon sits docked at Military Ocean Terminal Sunny Point, Southport, N.C. (Picture source: U.S. Air Force)

The option will continue to provide one U.S. flagged vessel (M/V Capt. David I. Lyon) for the transportation and prepositioning of cargo including, but not limited to; hazardous cargoes, explosives, ammunition, vehicular, containerized, and general cargoes, and for military readiness for the Department of the Air Force.

The current contract is approximately 111-day firm period with four one-year option periods and a 212-day option period. Work will be performed worldwide and is expected to be completed by Sept. 30, 2020. Fiscal 2020 working capital funds in the amount of $14,608,000 will be obligated at time of award and will not expire at the end of the fiscal year. Military Sealift Command, headquartered in Norfolk, Virginia, is the contracting activity (N3220519C3512).

The MV Capt. David I. Lyon is an Air Force prepositioning vessel named in honour of Capt. David I. Lyon, an Air Force logistics readiness officer and 2008 U.S. Air Force Academy graduate who was killed in action Dec. 27, 2013, in Afghanistan. The vessel will transport critical war reserve materiel to locations around the globe. CAPT DAVID I LYON is a Container ship built-in 1997 by New Szczecin Shipyard in Szczecin, Poland. Currently sailing under the flag of United States (USA). Formerly also known as CAPT. The vessel is capable of deployment to worldwide locations. Its gross tonnage is 16856 tons.