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Navy’s LRASM Significantly Breached Nunn-McCurdy In 2018

Friday, August 2nd, 2019

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Navy’s LRASM Significantly Breached Nunn-McCurdy In 2018

A Lockheed Martin rendering of LRASM. (Image: Lockheed Martin).

The Navy’s air-launched Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) sustained a significant Nunn-McCurdy unit cost breach compared to the acquisition program’s baseline (APB), the Pentagon announced last Thursday. The Navy is developing an Offensive Anti-Surface Warfare (OASuW) program in two increments. Increment 1 consists of the Lockheed Martin [LMT] LRASM and aims to target near and mid-term high value surface combatants that have an Integrated Air Defense System, meaning they are defended by long-range surface-to-air missiles. A significant breach is when unit…

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