Designed for fast, coastal missions, the Littoral Combat Ship was meant to be the “Swiss Army knife” of the U.S. Navy. But ...

Reeling from a decade of design glitches, cost overruns, yard delays and leadership snafus, the littoral combat ship or LCS program by mid-2016 appeared to be mired in dysfunction.

The Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program, like the rest of the Navy, has been in the midst of a large turn since the end of the last decade.

BIW and Lockheed Martin are currently both working on the LCS program. BIW has been building the LCS Coronado at a partner shipyard in Alabama, but the project involves local jobs in Bath ...

One of the ship's two variants is built in Mobile and defense officials have widely criticized the LCS in the past. In the past five years, the Navy has spent more than $34 billion on the program.

Despite five broken ships within 12 months, the Navy's top officer voiced confidence in the littoral combat ship program.

The Navy's 2016 LCS program review took stock of the program's strengths and weaknesses and sought to provide a practical framework for their deployment.

WASHINGTON -- The Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program was under a microscope this week after news of an electrical problem resulted in a brief loss of power for USS Freedom (LCS 1) over the weekend ...