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Navy/USMC

Goal Is To Get The Most Out Of 20 SSCs, CNO Says

Defense Daily Staff

Tuesday, October 14th, 2014

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Goal Is To Get The Most Out Of 20 SSCs, CNO Says

The USS Fort Worth (LCS-3). Photo: Defense Daily.

The goal of the Navy’s ongoing review for a small surface combatant vessel is aimed at getting the most possible capability out of the ships, and includes cost, increasing lethality and survivability and perhaps making them bigger than the Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) the service is currently building, the Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan Greenert said Tuesday. Greenert said the review ordered by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel should be complete in the near future and the Navy still has…

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