The U.S. Navy has decided to delay by a year until fiscal 2020 the awarding of a design and construction contract for a planned new frigate, according to congressional testimony on Wednesday by two ...

Maybe, just maybe, it's safe to say that the U.S. Navy's Littoral Combat Ships are finally entering calmer waters after a stormy voyage from the drawing board to their place in the fleet. Certainly, a ...

The Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program, like the rest of the Navy, has been in the midst of a large turn since the end of the last decade when the Navy began to come to grips with a new global ...

As the Navy prepares to field its Littoral Combat Ship in numbers as well as transition the acquisition system from block buys of LCSs into the new frigate program, both the fleet and two shipbuilders ...

The Director, Navy Staff, Vice-Adm. Richard W. Hunt, recommends the LCS council continue, looks to program future. In a recent memo to the Chief of Naval Operations , the Director, Navy Staff, Vice ...

It’s been a year since the ribbon cutting ceremony for the Littoral Combat Ship Training Facility at Naval Base San Diego. The facility boasts 89 military staffers, plus 31 Department of Defense ...

THE PENTAGON — While no program is guaranteed protection during these days of fiscal austerity, the U.S. Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) acquisition plans are as safe as any other from substantial ...

Despite five broken ships within 12 months, a recent program overhaul, and a wide-ranging and ongoing engineering review, the Navy's top officer voiced confidence in the littoral combat ship program, ...

The Navy's littoral combat ship is costing taxpayers billions more than budgeted, failing survivability assessments, and may never live up to the original vision for the program, a panel of Navy and ...