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Tuesday, October 25, 2011

LCS Program Shies Away From Major Changes

USS Freedom (LCS-1)The top priority for the U.S. Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship program is to deliver ships that meet the current requirements at or under the contracted costs, says Rear Adm. James Murdoch, LCS program executive officer.

The best way to do that, Murdoch says, is to avoid any additional requirements that could change the ship and pump up the price. “We don’t introduce any changes we don’t absolutely have to,” Murdoch said during an Oct. 20 briefing with reporters.

The program, he says, “has to get better, better and better on cost. We have to get the shipbuilders to build the ships to the quantity and costs they are under contract to do.”

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