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GAO Names EASR As Biggest LHA-8 Risk

Friday, June 5th, 2020

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GAO Names EASR As Biggest LHA-8 Risk

A representation of the future USS Bougainville (LHA-8), an amphibious assault ship. (Image: Huntington Ingalls Industries)

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) last week said the Navy told it the Enterprise Air Surveillance Radar (EASR) is the biggest program risk to the future USS Bougainville (LHA-8) amphibious assault ship program. LHA-8 will have “significant” design changes from previous ships in the class, but its use of the EASR system is a particular focus of the GAO’s annual Defense Acquisition Annual Assessment, published June 3. GAO said while the LHA-8 program office did not identify any critical technologies with…

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