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Former Navy Acquisitions Chief Says Frigate Parent Design Mod Plan Flawed, ‘A Lot Harder Than It Sounds’

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Former Navy Acquisitions Chief Says Frigate Parent Design Mod Plan Flawed, ‘A Lot Harder Than It Sounds’
Navy Briefing Slide Comparing FFG-62 Design to FREMM Design in a briefing the service provided to the Congressional Research Service and Congressional Budget Office, dated August 18, 2021. (Image: CRS)

The former Navy acquisition chief this week admitted the Navy’s plan to modify a parent design for the Constellation-class frigate was more difficult than the service thought, leading to major ship design and production delays. While the Navy usually made iterative changes to existing designs for years, “when we needed to make wholly new designs, we had a tendency to make additions or modifications to ship designs that were already in play somehow. Certainly, we saw that in the frigate…

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