The U.S. Navy has decided to delay by a year until fiscal 2020 the awarding of a design and construction contract for a planned new frigate, according to congressional testimony on Wednesday by two ...

It’s been a year since the ribbon cutting ceremony for the Littoral Combat Ship Training Facility at Naval Base San Diego. The facility boasts 89 military staffers, plus 31 Department of Defense ...

The Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program, like the rest of the Navy, has been in the midst of a large turn since the end of the last decade when the Navy began to come to grips with a new global ...

As the Navy prepares to field its Littoral Combat Ship in numbers as well as transition the acquisition system from block buys of LCSs into the new frigate program, both the fleet and two shipbuilders ...

Maybe, just maybe, it's safe to say that the U.S. Navy's Littoral Combat Ships are finally entering calmer waters after a stormy voyage from the drawing board to their place in the fleet. Certainly, a ...

The Director, Navy Staff, Vice-Adm. Richard W. Hunt, recommends the LCS council continue, looks to program future. In a recent memo to the Chief of Naval Operations , the Director, Navy Staff, Vice ...

Despite five broken ships within 12 months, a recent program overhaul, and a wide-ranging and ongoing engineering review, the Navy's top officer voiced confidence in the littoral combat ship program, ...

Both LCS designs were supposed to be for ships displacing 2,500 tons, with a full load draft of under 3.3 meters (ten feet), permitting access to very shallow "green" and even "brown" coastal and ...

WASHINGTON -- The Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program was under a microscope this week after news of an electrical problem resulted in a brief loss of power for USS Freedom (LCS 1) over the weekend and ...

Hat Yai Flooding Catastrophe a Massive Blow to Thailand’s PM Anutin Senator John McCain, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee charged with oversight of the United States’ armed forces, ...