To build ships faster, the Navy needs to change how it designs them from the Hill Dov Zakheim, opinion contributor

Two days before Thanksgiving, Navy Secretary John Phelan announced the cancellation of the $22 billion 20 ship Constellation multi-mission frigate program. The ship was meant to be capable of conducting anti-air, anti-surface, anti-submarine and electromagnetic warfare both in littoral areas and on the high seas. The Navy had already spent about $2 billion of the $7.6 billion that the Congress had… Read More