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Navy Budget Pushes Large Surface Combatant RFP To 2024, Lays Out Schedule

Tuesday, March 19th, 2019

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Navy Budget Pushes Large Surface Combatant RFP To 2024, Lays Out Schedule

Artist rendering of the first Flight III DDG-51 Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, the future USS Jack H. Lucas (DDG-125). (Image: Huntington Ingalls Industries)

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…

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