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US Report their designs, working toward a summer 2004 decision deadline to proceed to the next step: the awarding of final design and construction contracts. Following completion of the seven-month LCS preliminary design stage, the Navy will select two builders, one or both of whom will build the first two ships. The first vessel will commence construction in early 2005 and the other in early 2006.

Plans also call for the additional con- struction of three ships in 2008 and four in 2009.

The Players

Genera] Dynamics - Bath Iron Works;

Lockheed Martin Naval Electronics &

Surveillance Systems Surface Systems; and Raytheon Co., Integrated Defense

Systems, were each awarded a contract for the performance of flight LCS pre- liminary design. Each contractor and their teams received a contract to per- form a seven-month preliminary design effort to refine its proposed LCS con- cept. LCS will be a high-speed ship designed for fighting in littoral or coastal areas.

The eventual real LCS will feature an advanced hull form and a shallow draft and will be capable of quickly moving through the littoral at speeds of up to 40 to 50 knots. Obviously, much design work has already been invested in the project from all three teams, perhaps none more so than Raytheon's entrant,

Bath Iron Works Team

Team Members

General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems

General Dynamics Canada

General Dynamics Electric Boat

Austal USA

BAE Systems

CAE of Canada

Maritime Applied Physics Corporation

Qinetiq of the United Kingdom.

Lockheed Martin

Naval Electronics & Surveillance Systems

Surface Systems

Team Members

Gibbs & Cox

Bollinger Shipyards

Marinette Marine

Donald L. Blount and Associates

Fincantieri

NAVATEK

Blohm + Voss

Angle, Inc.

ABS

BBN Technologies

Charters Technical Services

DRS Technologies

IZAR

MA&D.

Raytheon Co.

Integrated Defense Systems

Team Members

John J. McMullen & Associates

UMOE Mandal

Atlantic Marine, Inc.

Goodrich Corporation

August 2003 which is based in a currently operating

Royal Norwegian navy ship. "We're leveraging about $500 million that has already been invested in this ship technology (via the development of

Norway's Skjold)," said Tim Spotts,

Project Manager, LCS, Raytheon, "we feel this is a major advantage to our side.

It is a slick ship design ... a definite step outside the box." "We are privileged to offer our expert- ise within this impressive consortium that incorporates critical talents from a diversity of companies," said Tom

Diamant, president of JJMA.

Raytheon's total ship system engineer- ing, naval engineering and ship design competencies with Umoe Mandal's innovative advantages of advanced SES hull design and manufacturing process- es, Goodrich's composite design and fabrication as well as the streamlined and agile benefits of teammate Atlantic

Marine provides.

Demanding

Conditions

Require

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