FY 2021 Notice of Funding Opportunity for Small Shipyard Grants

The Maritime Administration is providing grants to small shipyards to make capital and related improvements to qualified shipyard facilities, and to provide training for workers in shipbuilding, ship repair, and associated industries. The grants will be awarded to foster efficiency, competitive operations, and quality ship construction, repair, and reconfiguration in small shipyards across the United States. Key aspects of the grant program include: * Eligible applicants must be shipyards with no more than 1,200 production employees * Eligible projects include capital improvement projects and training projects * The Federal funds for any eligible project will not exceed 75 percent of the total cost of such project * Applicants must submit an original paper copy of the application and two USB flash drives each containing a complete electronic version of the application in PDF format * Applications will be evaluated based on how effective the project will be in fostering efficiency, competitive operations, and quality ship construction, repair, and reconfiguration