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Thursday, May 29, 2014

U.S. Navy secretary defends new warship program

LCS-1 & LCS-2U.S. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus defended the embattled $34 billion Littoral Combat Ship program on Wednesday and said the ability to reconfigure the ships to carry out different missions would help the Navy keep pace with rapidly changing technologies.

A Navy task force is reassessing the program after Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel expressed significant concerns about the survivability and firepower of the LCS ships, and ordered a pause in orders after 32 ships.

The Navy has so far ordered 24 of the 52 ships planned for the program from the two companies that build them, Lockheed Martin Corp and Australia's Austal.

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