The Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) is a relatively inexpensive Navy surface combatant equipped with modular plug-and-fight mission packages. The Navy wants to field a force of 55 LCSs. The first two (LCS-1 and LCS-2) were procured in FY2005 and FY2006 and were commissioned into service on November 8, 2008, and January 16, 2010. Another two (LCS-3 and LCS-4) were procured in FY2009 and are under construction. Two more were procured in FY2010, and the Navys proposed FY2011 budget requested funding to procure another two. Navy plans call for procuring an additional 16 in FY2012-FY2015 at a rate of four ships per year. There are two very different LCS designsone developed and produced by an industry team led by Lockheed, and another developed and produced by an industry team led by General Dynamics.


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    Title :

    Navy Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) Program: Background, Issues, and Options for Congress, January 11, 2011


    Contributors:
    R. O'Rourke (author)

    Publication date :

    2011


    Size :

    65 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English