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BIW and Lockheed Martin are currently both working on the LCS program. BIW has been building the LCS Coronado at a partner shipyard in Alabama, but the project involves local jobs in Bath ...
Aspiring educators in Lynchburg now have more opportunities than ever to become licensed teachers, LCS said.
Designed for fast, coastal missions, the Littoral Combat Ship was meant to be the “Swiss Army knife” of the U.S. Navy. But ...
September 28, 2023: It came as no surprise when the U.S. Navy recently made it official that its ambitious but poorly implemented "Littoral Combat Ship" (LCS) program will be eliminated. This comes ...
THE PENTAGON — While no program is guaranteed protection during these days of fiscal austerity, the U.S. Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) acquisition plans are as safe as any other from ...
The Navy has awarded a contract worth up to $169 million over five years to Computer Sciences Corp. to furnish a wide array of support services to the Littoral Combat Ship Program Office.
Roughly 2,000 jobs are linked directly with the program in Marinette alone.Hagel says he is worried the Navy is relying too heavily on the LCS program."If we were to build out the LCS program to ...
As the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS-1) USS Freedom works its way through deployment exercises in the Asia-Pacific, a recent U.S. Congressional Research Service (CRS) report underscores the still ...
Lcs-Program-Office News: US Navy To Delay Planned Frigate Award, USS Coronado Completes Survivability Test, Supervisor Of Shipbuilding, Bath Change Of Command ...
One of the ship's two variants is built in Mobile and defense officials have widely criticized the LCS in the past. In the past five years, the Navy has spent more than $34 billion on the program.
House appropriators authorized $38.7 million for this program. The HASC also slashed the Navy’s requested $197.1 million for LCS mine countermeasures modules (MCM) in FY 2020.