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The U.S. Navy is doing what it can to high-grade its troubled fleet of Littoral Combat Ships, repairing persistent defects in the best vessels while attempting to dispose of the worst – including two Freedom<\/em>-class ships that are just a few years old. <\/p>\n

The Navy has already received congressional approval to decommission LCS 1 and 2, which have long been relegated to a test and training role due to breakdowns. In the Pentagon's defense budget proposal for FY2022, the service now seeks authorization to decommission hulls 3, 4, 7 and 9, for a total of six to be removed from the fleet and written off. <\/p>\n

LCS 3 and 4 were put on the chopping block last year, but Congress declined to authorize their deactivation. LCS 7 and 9 – commissioned in 2016 and 2017, respectively – are newly added to the request. <\/p>\n

In its budget overview, the Navy explained that LCS 7<\/a> and 9 have sustained major propulsion casualties related to the Freedom<\/em>-class vessels' notorious combining gear problems<\/a>, and they "will incur significant associated repair costs." By taking these ships off active duty, the repair costs could be avoided and the funds redirected to building a tougher, better-armed, more reliable replacement – the new Constellation<\/em>-class.<\/p>\n

After disposing of the lowest-performing vessels, dozens of LCS hulls will still remain in the fleet, where they will require an estimated $50-70 million per year each to operate and maintain – approaching the opex for a larger and more capable Arleigh Burke<\/em>-class destroyer. According to the Navy, that price tag is driven by multiple component failures, coupled with a maintenance program that relies heavily on paid contractors during port calls. <\/p>\n

To get after these issues, the Navy has assigned a longtime LCS program officer – Qualcomm engineer and Navy reservist Rear Adm. Robert Nowakowski – to run a task force on remediating the worst of the problems. The task force has identified 32 failure-prone components across both vessel classes, and it is focusing in on the four or five parts in each class that have the biggest impact on readiness. <\/p>\n

The task force is also re-examining the maintenance model for the vessels. In a press conference Monday, Commander of Naval Surface Forces Vice Adm. Roy Kitchener told media that the current timeline for an in-port contractor repair session is as long as 14 days, and it can take up to 21 days to find and deliver the right contractor to a forward-deployed LCS. The Navy wants to get that timeline down and to shift a greater share of the workload onto the crew – or onto a team of supernumerary U.S. Navy personnel. <\/p>\n

"I think one of the toughest challenges we’ve had is quite frankly one is how we do the maintenance [with contractors]," said Nowakowski. "It left us with the inability quite frankly to troubleshoot to the level that the Navy is used to doing."<\/p>\n


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