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Latest "Freedom-class" stories
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The 19 things you need to watch in 2019
More money and more personnel but also new challenges from rising rivals in the Western Pacific, Europe and the Persian Gulf. More changes to your leadership at the Pentagon. And more innovations that promise to transform the ways your Navy recruits, trains and retains its sailors.
By Geoff Ziezulewicz, Mark D. Faram, Natalie Gross, Tara Copp, Leo Shane III, Carl Prine and David Larter, Defense News
LCS Sioux City slated for commissioning in Annapolis
Named after the fourth-largest city in Iowa, the Sioux City will become the 13th LCS to join the fleet and the sixth of the Freedom-class variant built by the team of Lockheed Martin and Fincantieri Marinette Marine in Wisconsin.
By Carl Prine