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Navy Outlines Plan For Second Frigate Shipyard

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2021

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Navy Outlines Plan For Second Frigate Shipyard

Rendering of the Fincantieri Marinette Marine’s USS Constellation (FFG-62) guided-missile frigate. (Image: Naval Sea Systems Command briefing slide at the Navy League’s annual Sea Air Space Expo from 2021).

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. -- The Navy is planning to bring in candidates to be a second Constellation-class (FFG-62) frigate shipbuilder early in the process before competition to minimize difficulties and added costs. Capt. Kevin Smith, program manager of the new frigate class, PMS-515, admitted that “there’s been a lot of discussion from the last administration into the current administration about where we’re going to go.” “It's pre-decisional in the Navy right now but we do have in our contract a…

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