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 ...

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 US Navy commissioned the last of its 35 littoral combat ships, the USS Cleveland, earlier this month at a pier in its ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) fleet has not demonstrated the operational capabilities it needs to perform its mission. Operational testing has found several significant challenges, including the ship ...

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 USS Cleveland will be the final Littoral Combat Ship to enter service—ending a long, and not entirely positive, saga for the warships.