SEATTLE—This week, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus and Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson told Congress that the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) requirement remains 52 ships, but Defense Secretary Ashton Carter on Thursday doubled down on his assertion that 40 will be adequate.“Forty is enough, and the Navy's own warfighting analysis indicates that,” he said during a gaggle with reporters in Seattle, where he was meeting with executives from Microsoft [MSFT] and Amazon [AMZN]. “And so we are adjusting the buy…
