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Navy/USMC

2020 Budget Delays Large Surface Combatant Amid New Tech

Thursday, March 14th, 2019

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2020 Budget Delays Large Surface Combatant Amid New Tech

Artist rendering of the first Flight III DDG-51 Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, the future USS Jack H. Lucas (DDG-125). (Image: Huntington Ingalls Industries)

The Navy’s FY 2020 budget request delays the service’s planned Large Surface Combatant (LSC) as it works on developing and fielding new technology in the shorter term. Navy officials previously said it aimed to get the LSC, which the service plans to succeed the Arleigh Burke-class Flight III DDG-51 destroyers, on contract by the mid-2020s. However, the Navy budget documents released so far only provide $71 million in funds through the research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) account. In October,…

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