Swiftships Shipbuilders of Morgan City, La., is being awarded a $20,221,529 modification to previously awarded contract for the detail, design and construction of four 28-meter coastal patrol crafts and associated crew familiarization training and technical services for the Egyptian Navy under the Foreign Military Sales Program. Swiftships will provide two co-assembly kits and two co-production kits to support the construction of the four 28-meter CPCs. These kits, consisting of all material necessary for construction, will be shipped to Alexandria, Egypt, for construction by an Egyptian workforce, with oversight by Swiftships. Work will be performed in Morgan City, La. (75 percent), Alexandria, Egypt (25 percent), and is expected to be completed by February 2014. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity.
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We have not learned a thing. We keep developing the military of questionable so called friends and we manage to get caught in a confrontation with that so called friend that in the end cost us lives in keeping our so called friend out of here, First the Japanese in the 1930′s bought all of our scrap iron than built a military and navy with it. Now, in the 1970′s I worked with green card Muslims from Iran, Pakistan, and Bangladesh at Ebasco and Savannah River Site who were very studious in nuclear engineering and had clearances that most Americans could not get, now look where we are! This middle East War is nothing like what we are getting into right here on our soil.