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Frigate Manager Says Design To Finish This Year, Delays Because Parent Design Mods Not Understood

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Frigate Manager Says Design To Finish This Year, Delays Because Parent Design Mods Not Understood
Figure 1: Selected FFG-62 Mission Systems from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) report “Navy Frigate: Unstable Design Has Stalled Construction and Compromised Delivery Schedules,” released May 2024. (Image: GAO)

The program manager for the Constellation-class frigate this week said the Navy plans to finally complete design of the ship this year and commented some of the delays were due to a lack of understanding of how complex it would be to adapt the preexisting design to Navy specifications. Capt. Andy Gold, program manager for the frigate within Program Executive Office Unmanned and Small Combatants, emphasized the frigate program is “focused on getting the design complete here this year” so…

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