Littoral Combat Ship
Abstract
The RDT&E portion of the LCS Program is comprised of design and development efforts required to deliver the Flight 0 Class Ships, including integration with modular MCM, ASW, and SUW mission packages, and construction of the first two Flight 0 Class Ships, the USS FREEDOM (LCS 1) delivered September 2008 and the USS INDEPENDENCE (LCS 2) delivered December 2009. It includes the design and development effort required to support the introduction and deployment of a Flight 0+ baseline for the ships awarded in FY09 with the incorporation of lessons learned from the design and construction of USS FREEDOM (LCS 1) and USS INDEPENDENCE (LCS 2), including improved waterjets and a waterjet tunnel extension on the Lockheed Martin (LM) LCS Design. Additionally, it includes design and development efforts required to support the introduction of a new down selected design baseline for a five year block buy in FY10-15. This new baseline will include lessons learned from the LCS 1 through 4 and the introduction of various cost reduction initiatives of a second source for the down selected design in FY12 built to a Technical Data Package (TDP) developed in FY10-12, with selected ship systems provided as GFE. The LCS Program achieved Milestone A and Program Initiation in May 2004, and underwent a Milestone A update in FY09. Milestone B is planned for third quarter 2010. The LCS design and development phases include platform design and development, experimentation and ship system design and integration, hull platform testing, development of a Technical Data Package, total ship system engineering and integration, planning and conduct of system testing, including procurement of ordnance. The R&D portion of LCS funding is also comprised of formal Developmental and Operational Assessment testing of the LCS Ships and Mission Packages. Test and Evaluation will concentrate on verifying integration and interoperability of employed technologies and systems in the LCS Seaframe designs and modular mission packages to achieve the mission capabilities and performance requirements as defined in the LCS Program's Flight 0 and Flight 0+ Capabilities Development Documents (CDD). T&E functions will include the evaluation of Critical Technical Parameters (CTP), Measures of Effectiveness (MOE), Measures of Suitability (MOS), and Key Performance Parameters (KPP) for the core Seaframe and the focused missions. Operational testing will also include the conduct of formal Live Fire Test and Evaluation (LFT&E) efforts including Full Scale Shock Trials (FSST) through FY15.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2011
- Source ID
- 3096_0603581N_4_1319_PB_2011
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