
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…