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Originally posted by JCT View PostUSNI has published a Congressional Report on the FFG(X) competition. It has a good recap of the competition to date, but you can see politics starting to creep into the competition:
The Navy needs to not do this split procurement crap with two different designs. Short term political gain for long term logistics and compatibility nightmare. Hopefully they've learned their lesson.
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Originally posted by jlvfr View PostFor some reason, my PC won't read the report. Can you say what that conclusion is?
The FFG(X) program presents several potential oversight issues for Congress, including the following:
• whether to approve, reject, or modify the Navy’s FY2019 funding request for the program;
• whether the Navy has accurately identified the capability gaps and mission needs to be addressed by the program;
• whether procuring a new class of FFGs is the best or most promising general approach for addressing the identified capability gaps and mission needs;
• whether the Navy has chosen the appropriate amount of growth margin to incorporate into the FFG(X) design;
• the Navy’s intent to use a parent-design approach for the program rather than develop an entirely new (i.e., clean-sheet) design for the ship;
• the Navy’s plan to end procurement of LCSs in FY2019 and shift to procurement of FFG(X)s starting in FY2020;
• whether the initiation of the FFG(X) program has any implications for required numbers or capabilities of U.S. Navy cruisers and destroyers.
Reading a little further, it's interesting that the Navy is planning on using the LCS Blue/Gold crewing concept (derived from the silent service, etc.)
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The Feb 04, 2019 revision of the CRS R44972 has been released, Congessional Research Service report:
"Navy Frigate (FFG[X]) Program:
Background and Issues for Congress"
https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R44972.
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Quoted snippet below was excerpted from the full article at the following link.
https://news.usni.org/2019/05/28/loc...r-ffgx-contest
Lockheed Martin won’t submit a bid to compete in the design of the Navy’s next-generation guided-missile FFG(X) frigate competition, company officials told USNI News on Tuesday. The company elected to focus on its involvement developing the frigate combat system and other systems rather than forward its Freedom-class LCS design for the detailed design and construction contract Naval Sea Systems Command plans to issue this summer, Joe DePietro, Lockheed Martin vice president of small combatants and ship systems, told USNI News....
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Originally posted by JA Boomer View PostI love the looks of the Bath Iron Works/Navantia FFG(X) design...“He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”
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Originally posted by surfgun View PostIt would look a bit better with a 5” up front.
They're still thinking that that 57mm pop gun is useful? It's a fine piece for corvettes and cutters etc, but a frigate should be packing nothing less than a 76mm IMHO“He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”
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