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SecNav and CNO Tell Congress Navy Meeting With Columbia Primes, Updates On Large Surface Combatant

SecNav and CNO Tell Congress Navy Meeting With Columbia Primes, Updates On Large Surface Combatant
Artist rendering of the future Columbia-class nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarine (SSBN), which will replace the Ohio-class submarines. (Illustration: U.S. Navy)

The Secretary of the Navy and Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) told appropriators this week that the service is trying to build more margin in the Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine program and also provided Congress with updates on the future Large Surface Combatant (LSC). Appropriators raised concerns about the Columbia program’s cost and schedule margin given a tight timeline, especially following a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report that said the submarine’s procurement cost was overly optimistic about labor hour assumptions…

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