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Budget

Carter Directs Navy to Cut LCS Program to 40 Ships, Winnow Down to One Builder

Valerie Insinna

Thursday, December 17th, 2015

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Carter Directs Navy to Cut LCS Program to 40 Ships, Winnow Down to One Builder

The USS Coronado (LCS-4) (Photo: U.S. Navy)

Defense Secretary Ashton Carter has called on the Navy to slash its planned buy of Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) and frigates from 52 to 40 vessels, as well as to downselect to a single vendor.“For the last several years, the Department of Navy has overemphasized resources used to incrementally increase total ship numbers at the expense of critically needed investments in areas where our adversaries are not standing still, such as strike, ship survivability, electronic warfare and other capabilities,” Carter…

Congress

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Congress

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Congress

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