
The Navy’s FY 2020 budget request pushed back funding for the planned Large Surface Combatant (LSC) to the mid-2020s while laying out the program’s schedule, expecting to release an RFP by 2024. Officials previously said they were hoping to have the LSC on contract by the early to mid-2020s, but preliminary FY ’20 budget summaries only provided $71 million in funds via the research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E) account (Defense Daily, March 14). The service’s full FY ’20 justification…