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Secretary of the Navy Richard Spencer told a House panel on Wednesday he is "pretty confident" the new future frigate, FFG(X), will stay at its current estimated cost. The frigate competition has five platforms, “which makes this probably one of the most competitive platform acquisition programs that we’ll have so we’re quite excited about that. We look at the learning curves on those hulls that are already out there and they’re already impressive,” Spencer told the House Armed Services committee.…
