The Navy will pursue an incremental strategy for the Littoral Combat Ship’s (LCS) mine countermeasures mission package that will involve transitioning from the Remote Minehunting System to an unmanned surface boat pulling a sonar and—at a later stage—moving to an unmanned underwater vehicle with a sonar embedded inside it, the service’s acquisition executive announced Wednesday.The Defense Department announced last month that it had formally canceled the Remote Minehunting System manufactured by Lockheed Martin [LMT], one of the systems slated for…
