The Navy’s ambitious plan for a new fleet of fast, modular warships spiraled as the Littoral Combat Ship program faced ...

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 ...

“An experiment that didn’t work,” said another. And an expensive one. The price of the program is pegged at $60 billion, but a 2023 report from the investigative journalism site ProPublica said the ...

WASHINGTON — As the U.S. Navy moves to cancel its anti-submarine warfare mission package for littoral combat ships, it has triggered another cost breach for the LCS mission modules program. The Navy ...

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 substantial ...

The Navy has awarded a contract worth up to $169 million over five years to Computer Sciences Corp. to furnish an array of support services to the Littoral Combat Ship Program Office. Under the ...

The LCS demonstrated it could not replace the old Perry class frigates or be of much use at all. Without the mission modules, the LCS could only be used as a coastal patrol ship that was only able to ...

The U.S. Navy once envisioned having a fleet of littoral combat ships; small, speedy warships capable of performing various duties in shallow, coastal waters. Since around 2005, the LCS shipbuilding ...