Littoral Combat Ship (LCS)

Abstract

This Program Element (PE) provides funds for detailed design, development, construction, integration, and testing of the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS). LCS is a fast, agile, and networked surface combatant with capabilities optimized to defeat asymmetric threats, and assure naval and joint force access into contested littoral regions. It uses open-systems architecture design, modular weapons, sensor systems, and a variety of manned and unmanned vehicles to expand the battle space and project offensive power into the littoral. LCS operates with focused-mission packages that deploy manned and unmanned vehicles to execute a variety of missions, including littoral anti-submarine warfare (ASW), surface warfare (SUW) and mine countermeasures (MCM). LCS also possesses inherent capabilities, regardless of the mission package installed, including Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR), Homeland Defense, Maritime Interdiction/Interception Operations (MIO), Anti-Terrorism/Force Protection (AT/FP), air self-defense, joint littoral mobility, Special Operating Forces (SOF), and logistic support for movement of personnel and supplies. This relatively small, high-speed surface combatant complements the U.S. Navy's Surface Fleet by operating in environments where it is less desirable to employ larger, multi-mission ships. LCS can deploy independently to overseas littoral regions, remain on station for extended periods of time either with a battle group or through a forward-basing arrangement, and is capable of underway replenishment. LCS will operate with Carrier Strike Groups, Surface Action Groups, in groups of other similar ships, or independently for diplomatic and presence missions. Additionally, LCS can operate cooperatively with the U.S. Coast Guard and Allies.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2014
• Source ID: 0603581N_4_1319_PB_2014
• Change Summary Explanation: FY 2014 changes for seaframe and mission package (MP) include the following: rephasing of FY 2014 funds to FY 2015 due to delay of Full Ship Shock Trial (FSST) Test and Evaluation and rephasing of Surface Warfare (SUW) efforts from FY 2014 to FY 2015 for environmental testing (shock, vibration, Electromagnetic Environmental Effects (E3), temperature, salt spray) and developmental flight testing. Other FY 2014 changes include the addition of: support for the dual acquisition strategy and increased COMOPTEVFOR requirements to perform Developmental Testing and Operational Testing (DT/OT) on both LCS variants; Technical Evaluation (TECHEVAL) and Operational Evaluation (OPEVAL) as required for Navy final acceptance; MCM Mission Planning Architecture Software (MPAS) migration to a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA); and MCM efforts for the completion of integration of RMMV v4.2.1 with MCM MP Increment I.
• Service Agency Name: Navy

Entities

Organizations

• United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Autonomy
• Biomedical
• Cyber
• Ground and Sea Platforms
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Aircrafts
• Application Software
• Command And Control
• Control Systems
• Corrosion Inhibition
• Deployment
• Human Systems Integration
• Logistics
• Maintenance
• Systems Engineering
• Test And Evaluation
• Test Equipment
• Unmanned Aerial Systems
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
• Unmanned Maritime Systems
• Unmanned Underwater Vehicles
• Warfare

Readers

• Naval Mine Countermeasure Systems Development.

Technology Areas

• Autonomy
• Autonomy - UAVs
• Space
• Space - Satellites