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Building “flexible” surface ships designed to accept incremental capability upgrades throughout their service lives is more expensive up front, but delivers superior mission performance than traditional ships designed for a specific mission profile, according to naval engineers.“In all cases, the flexible warship gives you better growth and higher performance than a traditional warship,” Eric Rebentisch, a research associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sociotechnical Systems Research Center, said Feb. 15. “The effect of the ability to continually upgrade [mission…
