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LCS: The USA’s Littoral Combat Ships
March 4/24: Huntington-Ingalls won an $80 million cost-plus-award-fee modification to exercise options for the accomplishment of the planning yard services for the Littoral Combat Ship in-service ships. Work is expected to be completed by April 2025. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, DC, is the contracting activity.
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Austal Team Trimaran LCS Design (click to enlarge) Exploit simplicity, numbers, the pace of technology development in electronics and robotics, and fast reconfiguration. That was the US Navy’s idea for the low-end backbone of its future surface combatant fleet. Inspired by successful experiments like Denmark’s Standard Flex ships, the US Navy’s $35+ billion “Littoral Combat […]
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