The Navy is satisfied that land-based and at-sea testing of the new combining gear system — and its bearings, specifically — sufficiently wrung out the new design, and now the service can move forward with installing the fix in new-construction and in-service ships.
The 31st MEU in the Philippine Sea, soldiers at the Infantry Advanced Leaders Course, Air Force maintainers at Red Flag-Alaska, Navy submariners in the Pacific and more in this week’s Frontline Photos
Issues with the combining gear of the Freedom-class LCS variants have forced the Navy to halt further acceptance of new ships. The CNO called that a “big problem.”
The military hopes to “assess, evaluate and prevent unauthorized use of DoD IP address space,” said a statement issued by the chief of the Pentagon’s Defense Digital Service.