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Thursday, October 08, 2009

New LCS prices to be revealed

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Contract prices for the Navy’s two most recent Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) will be made public soon — perhaps before the end of October. “That’s my goal,” a key admiral told reporters Tuesday.

Rear Adm. Bill Landay, the Navy’s Program Executive Officer for Ships, said figuring the prices for the ships is a “convoluted process” because some of the materials used for the ships were purchased under earlier ship contracts that were then canceled.

Price has become a major factor in the LCS program, which aims to buy a total of 55 small, fast and modular warships.

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