
The Navy’s program manager for the new FFG(X) future frigate program said the service expects the follow-on units to cost close to $800 million. “We started closer to the $950 [number], we are trending very close to the 800 [number] now. So we have taken some very significant costs out of the average follow-on units,” Regan Campbell, FFG(X) program manager, said at the annual Surface Navy Association Symposium on Thursday. Campbell declined to provide a cost value for the lead…