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Navy To Set Up Program Office For Modified LCS

Defense Daily Staff

Wednesday, January 7th, 2015

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Navy To Set Up Program Office For Modified LCS

The Littoral Combat Ship USS Freedom (LCS-1). Photo: U.S. Navy

The Navy is in the process of setting up a program office to design and buy the small surface combatants that are planned to follow the Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) currently in procurement, the service’s acquisition chief said Wednesday.Sean Stackley, the assistant secretary of the Navy for research, development and acquisition, told reporters after an address at the Atlantic Council that there was not yet an established timeframe for standing up the office but doing so was a “high priority.”The…

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