Navy doesn't want to define new family of surface combatants

The Navy purposely is leaving the next-generation surface combatant family of ships (SC-21) "ill defined" to avoid locking in today's technologies, Rear Adm. Daniel J. Murphy, Jr., director of the Navy's Surface Warfare Div., told the Navy League Symposium yesterday. A contract award for SC-21 is...

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