Mary-Louise Hoffman
Mike Petters, president and CEO of Huntington Ingalls Industries, has recommended that the U.S. Navy launch its LX(R) dock landing ship development initiative two years earlier than originally planned in an interview with Reuters posted Tuesday.
Petters told Reuters he believes pushing the start of that project forward from fiscal 2020 to fiscal 2018 will minimize a potential production-line gap between the first LX(R) and the LPD-28 amphibious transport dock.
Huntington Ingalls received a $200 million contract in late 2015 to obtain materials for the construction of LPD-28, which will be the last and 12th ship of the Navy’s San Antonio class.
The Navy has asked General Dynamics and HII to submit proposals for the LX(R) amphibious ship program, according to the report by Andrea Shalal.
