Wednesday, July 24, 2013
And for the latest on the Navy's Little Crappy Ships
The GAO has recommended that purchases of the Little Crappy Ships be slowed down pending testing and investigation into whether or not the Little Crappy Ships have any useful military purpose.
The GAO, Congress’s nonpartisan investigative arm, said in a draft report earlier this year that the Navy is risking as much as $40 billion by purchasing the ships faster than it can demonstrate their “militarily useful capability.” The final report is set for release tomorrow at a U.S. House hearing.Somebody better stop the Navy befor e they purchase again.
The LCS program has generated a growing list of questions about its designs, firepower, defenses and survivability at a time when the Pentagon faces as much as $500 billion in additional budget cuts over the next nine years.
“We realize that these may be some rough waters,” Rear Admiral Thomas Rowden, the surface warfare director, said during a July 23 conference call with reporters. “I’m confident we’ll be able to address these issues and get this significant capability to the fleet.”
The GAO’s draft report said “a pause is needed” in construction of the Navy’s newest combat vessels until additional testing can answer “fundamental questions about whether the program, as envisioned, will meet the Navy’s needs.”
Virginia Republican Representative Randy Forbes, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee’s seapower subcommittee, called the GAO’s report “very concerning” and said in an earlier interview that “it is something we will be monitoring very, very carefully.”
The Navy will be under contract for at least 24 of the planned 52 ships before it completes tests in 2019 to see whether mission modules can meet minimum performance requirements, the GAO report said.Can't afford monies for SNAP, education, infrastructure repair and replacement but the god damn Navy can buy 24 ships that may be useless for any possible task for at least $40 Billion.
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