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New Frigate Follow-On Ships Expected To Cost Near $800 Million

Thursday, January 17th, 2019

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New Frigate Follow-On Ships Expected To Cost Near $800 Million

The future USS Sioux City (LCS-11) finishing acceptance trials in Lake Michigan in May 2018. (Photo: Lockheed Martin)

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…

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