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Navy Aiming For $150 Million LAW, But Could Exceed Goal

Friday, February 11th, 2022

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Navy Aiming For $150 Million LAW, But Could Exceed Goal

Austal USA concept mockup of the Light Amphibious Warship (LAW) presented at the Navy league's Sea Air Space expo in August 2021. (Photo: Richard Abott/Defense Daily)

A Navy official said while the Light Amphibious Warship (LAW) concept aims to stay under $150 million per ship this threshold could still be tossed aside based on the requirements. “We’re trying to buy the ship within the budget, but we’re also looking at what are the range of possibilities for different types of technologies, different survivability…aspects, what does that cost, how does that get into design and we’re doing tradeoffs in terms of capability for requirements,” Tom Rivers, Executive…

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