Aviation Week

LCS Program Still Facing Challenges As Freedom Deployment Continues

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 ...
Defense One

Navy calls up support for LCS program office

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 ...
Aviation Week

LCS Program Seen As Insulated From Budget Turmoil

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 ...
StrategyPage

Surface Forces: LCS Program Terminated

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 ...
The National Interest

Navy Issued Multiple Contracts for LCS Program

The U.S. Navy is investing more money to maintain its east coast-based controversial littoral combat ships (LCS). Three multiple-award contracts worth approximately $2.76 billion combined were issued ...