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Wednesday, February 02, 2011

LCS Purchasing Plan Could Hurt Downselects

USS Freedom (LCS-1)USS Independence (LCS-2)
While the U.S. Navy’s dual-block-buy plan for its Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) fleet may have been the service’s best move for the program in the near term, the decision could make it difficult for the Pentagon to make downselect purchases, the Congressional Research Service (CRS) says.

Last year, the Navy decided to award the two LCS shipbuilding teams contracts to construct the two different versions of the ship instead of picking only one contract through a downselect, as the service originally had planned to do (Aerospace DAILY, Dec. 15, 2010).

The Navy said recent cost-saving measures and updated bids by the teams — one lead by Lockheed Martin and the other by Austal USA and General Dynamics — showed it would be better to award both teams the work through dual-block-buy deals.

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