 On 1 April 2015, the Navy awarded build contracts for LCS-22 and LCS-24 to Austal USA.On 20 July 2015, at a Kansas City Royals baseball game being played at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri, Secretary Mabus and Mayor Sly James announced the name of .On 20 August 2015, Secretary Mabus announced that the twelfth ship would be named .