Crs Report for Congress - Navy Littoral Combat Ship (Lcs) Program: Background, Issues, and Options for Congress: June 10, 2010 - Rl33741 (Paperback)

The Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) is a relatively inexpensive Navy surface combatant equipped with modular plug-and-fight mission packages. The basic version of the LCS, without any mission packages, is referred to as the LCS sea frame. 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 (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. The Navy's proposed FY2011 budget also requests procurement funding to procure LCS mission packages, LCS module weapons, and research and development funding for the LCS program. There are currently two very different LCS designs--one developed and produced by an industry team led by ...

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Imprint:	Bibliogov
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 2013
First published:	November 2013
Authors:	Ronald O'Rourke
Dimensions:	246 x 189 x 3mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	62
ISBN-13:	978-1-293-25072-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General
LSN:	1-293-25072-4
Barcode:	9781293250723

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