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Navy, Lockheed Martin Still Negotiating Combining Gear Fix

Tuesday, January 18th, 2022

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Navy, Lockheed Martin Still Negotiating Combining Gear Fix

The future USS Minneapolis-Saint Paul (LCS-21) Freedom-variant littoral combat ship finished acceptance trials on August 19, 2020. (Photo: Lockheed Martin)

A Navy official last week said the service and Lockheed Martin [LMT] are still negotiating the cost sharing to fix the combining gear problem on the Freedom-variant Littoral Combat Ships. “Not a whole lot has changed since [Rear] Adm. [Casey] Moton held a roundtable with all of you. We’re still in negotiations with Lockheed Martin, but it goes back to the base requirements of the contract and we are going to take everything under the contract that we have as…

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