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First Littoral Combat Ship to Deploy in March
During a media availability Feb. 21, Navy officials announced the Littoral Combat Ship USS Freedom (LCS 1) is on track to begin its first deployment March 1. This milestone was announced by the LCS Council, a group established by Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan Greenert Aug. 22, to oversee continued fleet testing and the [...]
New Waterjets Could Propel LCS to Greater Speeds
The Navy’s fifth littoral combat ship (LCS), Milwaukee, will be the first to benefit from new high-power density waterjets aimed at staving off rudder and propeller damage experienced on high-speed ships. The product of an Office of Naval Research (ONR) Future Naval Capabilities (FNC) program, the waterjets arrived last month at the Marinette Marine shipyard [...]
Seventh Littoral Combat Ship Takes Shape
A Lockheed Martin-led industry team officially laid the keel for the U.S. Navy’s seventh Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), the future USS Detroit. The event was part of a time-honored keel laying ceremony that took place at the Marinette Marine Corporation shipyard in Wisconsin. The Lockheed Martin LCS team is building the futuristic Freedom-variant LCS for [...]
Expeditionary Warfare Update: Littoral Combat Ship
The U.S. Navy is often referred to as America’s away team because we combat threats around the globe before they affect us at home. At the very core of Navy’s “away game” is our ability, in partnership with the Marines, to carry out expeditionary warfare– operations mounted from the sea, usually on short notice, consisting [...]
US Navy Littoral Combat Ship Delivered Two Months Early
The Lockheed Martin-led industry team delivered the nation’s third Littoral Combat Ship, Fort Worth (LCS 3), to the U.S. Navy two months ahead of schedule. The delivery followed the ship’s successful Acceptance Trials on Lake Michigan in May. “By delivering Fort Worth early and performing so successfully at Acceptance Trials, this team has reached milestones [...]
Dempsey Details Plan For ‘Singapore-Managed’ Ships
The Littoral Combat Ships that will soon begin rotational deployment to Singapore are an example of the increased military engagement called for under the U.S. Asia-Pacific strategy, Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey said today. En route from Singapore to the Philippines today, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff filled in the picture outlined [...]
Third US Littoral Combat Ship Completes Acceptance Trials
The nation’s third Littoral Combat Ship, USS Fort Worth (LCS 3), successfully completed its U.S. Navy acceptance trials and will be delivered to the Navy this summer. Fort Worth is the second surface combatant designed and built by a Lockheed Martin-led industry team. The trials, conducted in Lake Michigan from April 30 to May 4, [...]
Navy Funds Fiscal Year 2012 Littoral Combat Ships
The Navy issued contract modifications to Lockheed Martin Corporation and Austal USA under their respective Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) block buy contracts to add funding for construction of two fiscal year 2012 littoral combat ships each, March 16. This is the third funding increment for each contractor under their previously awarded, fixed-price incentive “block buy” [...]
Austal Launches 2nd Littoral Combat Ship
On January 10, 2012, Austal’s Mobile, Alabama shipyard completed the launch of the second 127-metre Independence-Variant Littoral Combat Ship, “Coronado” (LCS 4). The roll-out marked Austal’s second use of an innovative self-propelled modular transporter system to transfer the ship from the yard’s final assembly bay onto a drydock for launch. This system was first used [...]
