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 Nov 8, 2008, and Jan 16, 2010. Another two (LCS-3 and LCS-4) were procured in FY2009 and are under construction. Two more (LCS-5 and LCS-6) were procured in FY2010. The Navy's FY2011-FY2015 shipbuilding plan calls for procuring 17 more LCSs in annual quantities of 2, 3, 4, 4, and 4. The Navy's proposed FY2011 budget requests $1,231.0 million in procurement funding for the two LCSs that the Navy wants to procure in FY2011, and $278.4 million in FY2011 advance procurement funding for the 11 LCSs that the Navy wants to procure in FY2012-FY2014. There are currently two very different LCS designs -- one developed and produced by an industry team led by Lockheed, and another developed and produced by an industry team led by General Dynamics. LCS-1 and LCS-3 use the Lockheed design; LCS-2 and LCS-4 use the General Dynamics design. On Sep 16, 2009, the Navy announced a proposed new LCS acquisition strategy. Under the strategy, the Navy would hold a competition to pick a single design to which all LCSs procured in FY2010 and subsequent years would be built. The winner of the down select would be awarded a contract to build 10 LCSs over the 5-year period FY2010-FY2014, at a rate of 2 ships per year. The Navy would then hold a second competition -- open to all bidders other than the shipyard building the 10 LCSs in FY2010- FY2014 -- to select a second shipyard to build up to 5 additional LCSs to the same design in FY2012-FY2014. These two shipyards would then compete for contracts to build LCSs procured in FY2015 and subsequent years. The FY2010 defense authorization act grants the Navy contracting and other authority needed to implement this new LCS acquisition strategy.
Navy Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) Program: Background, Issues, and Options for Congress. Updated February 18. 2010
2010
47 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
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Management Practice , Business & Economics , Marine Engineering , Logistics Military Facilities & Supplies , Naval vessels(Combatant) , Project management , Cost overruns , Naval procurement , Shipbuilding , Naval budgets , Scheduling , Shipyards , Congress , Naval architecture , Cancellation , Risk analysis , Auditing , Selection , Legislation , Ship hulls , Cutters(Vessels) , Frigates , Delay , History , Multimission , Quantity , Competition , Littoral zones , Littoral combat ship , Program restructuring , Cost growth , Lcs(Littoral combat ship) , Lockheed martin , General dynamics , Lcs sea frames , Lcs mission packages , Policy options , Cost caps , Gao reports , Cbo reports , Press reports , Navy testimony , Ship cancellations , Down select , Northrop grumman , National security cutter , Common hulls