Since the early 2000s, the U.S. Navy, Army, Special Operations Command, and Marine Corps have been working to address fundamentally different ways of moving troops, vehicles and weapons, and equipment and supplies at high speeds within a maritime area of operations. Bridging the gap between low-speed sealift and high-speed airlift, the Navy's Joint High-Speed Vessel (JHSV) program fills that operational demand. The program of record calls for ten JHSVs to be delivered by Austal USA for operation by the U.S. Navy's Military Sealift Command (MSC). Austal is teamed with General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, which is responsible for the ship's electronic systems.
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