Navy Wants LCS ‘Frigate’ Upgrade A Year Earlier: 2018, Not 2019

Navy Wants LCS ‘Frigate’ Upgrade A Year Earlier: 2018, Not 2019
Navy Wants LCS ‘Frigate’ Upgrade A Year Earlier: 2018, Not 2019

NATIONAL HARBOR: The Navy wants to start building the upgraded “frigate” version of its controversial Littoral Combat Ship a year earlier, the frigate program manager said. The fixed-price, winner-take-all competition will “tentatively” happen in 2018 instead of 2019. To make that earlier date, Capt. Dan Brintzinghoffer said at the Sea-Air-Space conference here, the Navy will…