USS Freedom LCS-1 soon and very soon

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Originally Posted by geetrue

I just read seafarer's link (here)
that the US Navy won't order anymore after these two, due to the shipyards inability to gurantee the price.

How can any shipyard gurantee a price with high gas and food prices?

After the Navy gets hold of these two ships they will change their mind, unless these new ships threaten more of the same old fleet ships they need to guard the aircraft carrier's.

The program is pending a rebidding at a fixed price, then three more LCS will be built. The contractor needs to be given incentives to not just lowball the hell out of their offer to get the contract and then claim "Whoopsie!" later at the taxpayer's expense. I am glad the Navy finally wised up instead of bending over backwards to the contractor in this case.

PD