By Emelie Rutherford The Navy will meet with all of the defense-oversight committees about possibly modifying a $460 million-per-vessel cost cap on the next batch of Littoral Combat Ships (LCSs), the service's top officer said yesterday. While he said costs are coming down on both variants of the nascent near-shore ships, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead in comments to reporters on Capitol Hill indicated uncertainty about whether the Navy can buy three of them under the terms of…
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