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DoD Acquisition Chief Calls For New Ship Based On DDG-51 Or DDG-1000 Hull Form

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Monday, February 2nd, 2009

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By Geoff Fein The Pentagon acquisition chief has issued a pre-decisional memo laying out the path forward for acquisition of DDG-51 DDG-1000 and a new guided missile destroyer referred to as the Future Surface Combatant (FSC). Additionally, funding FSC under the DDG-1000 program would keep the Zumwalt-class effort from a critical Nunn-McCurdy breach, the memo said. According to the memo signed by John Young, FSC would be based on either the Arleigh Burke-class hull or the Zumwalt-class hull. "Funding for…

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