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Navy FY ’20 Budget Lays Out Frigate Schedule And Costs

Monday, March 18th, 2019

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Navy FY ’20 Budget Lays Out Frigate Schedule And Costs

The Independence-variant USS Manchester (LCS-14) littoral combat ship completing acceptance trials in Dec. 2017. (Photo: U.S. Navy courtesy of Austal USA).

The Navy’s detailed FY 2020 budget request documents, released Monday, spell out what the service expects future guided-missile frigate, FFG(X), construction and shipbuilding funding and timelines will be over the next several years The Navy’s documents underscore the FFG(X) program will continue to refine cost estimates to support the upcoming FY ’20 detail design and construction (DD&C) contract award. The service expects to award the first frigate, FFG-1, in July 2020, have it start construction in July 2022, and then…

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