Sleepless In Singapore: LCS Is Undermanned & Overworked, Says GAO

Sleepless In Singapore: LCS Is Undermanned & Overworked, Says GAO
Sleepless In Singapore: LCS Is Undermanned & Overworked, Says GAO

UPDATED with US Navy response WASHINGTON: Some spectacular glitches marred the first overseas deployment of the Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship, including an electrical failure that left the USS Freedom “briefly” dead in the water. Now Breaking Defense has obtained an unpublished Government Accountability Office study of Freedom‘s Singapore deployment that raises more serious questions about…

USS Little Rock, From Light to Guided Missile Cruiser: Lessons For The Littoral Combat Ship

USS Little Rock, From Light to Guided Missile Cruiser: Lessons For The Littoral Combat Ship
USS Little Rock, From Light to Guided Missile Cruiser: Lessons For The Littoral Combat Ship

The Littoral Combat Ship has come under light fire from Congress because they worry especially about findings by operational testers that the ships cannot survive a firefight. Norman Friedman, a consultant at Gryphon Technologies with more than 30 military books to his name, argues in the following piece that critics need to consider that “change…