Industry Prepares for New Navy Missile Program

摘要

Three major defense contractors are poised to vie for a pending Navy contract that would increase the littoral combat ship's survivability by equipping it with a powerful, long-range missile. Last fall, Director of Surface Warfare Rear Adm. Peter Fanta indicated that there was a need to equip the LCS with an over-the-horizon missile capability and signaled that the service would look for a mature, commercial-off-the-shelf technology to fill the gap. The system would fit into the Navy's "distributed lethality" concept.