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Navy Focusing On 32 LCS Reliability Issues

Monday, June 7th, 2021

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Navy Focusing On 32 LCS Reliability Issues

The future USS Cooperstown (LCS-23) littoral combat ship undergoes acceptance trials in Lake Michigan in December 2020. (Photo: Lockheed Martin)

The head of Naval Surface Forces on Monday said a littoral combat ship (LCS) task force is focusing on 32 key reliability issues on both ship variants to better meet fleet requirements. Vice Adm. Roy Kitchener, commander of Naval Surface Forces, stood up an LCS task force in 2020 to analyze, develop and implement improvements to the LCS, which has been ridden with several delays and issues over the past years. Kitchener said the task force is using experts from…

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