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Navy Proceeds With Contracts For Mobile Landing Platform Ships

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Thursday, May 6th, 2010

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By Emelie Rutherford The Navy is poised to award a contract to General Dynamics [GD] NASSCO for materials for the first Mobile Landing Platform (MLP), a key connector ship planned for seabasing. "It's significant," Capt. George Sutton, the MLP program manager, said Tuesday about the vessel's role in the Navy's recently restructured plans for maritime prepositioning forces. The service recently canceled previous plans for a new Maritime Prepositioning Force (Future) squadron of ships, and now is working to improve capabilities…

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