Congressional appropriators added $800 million to the Navy’s Medium Landing Ship program (LSM) in the latest defense spending bill in order to help shift the shipyard building the two Constellation-class frigates to work on the new vessel while warning about rising prices. The funding would be on top of $1.96 billion designated for the LSM program in the July 2025 reconciliation bill, which covered procuring upwards of two vessels, advance procurement and Marine Corps LSM bridging solutions (Defense Daily, April…
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