Rollout of the mine countermeasures mission package on the Independence-variant Littoral Combat Ship remains on track for later this fiscal year, a Navy official confirmed this week. The deployment of the MCM mission package marks a “generational change,” Capt. JJ Murawski, program manager for the small combatant and expeditionary modernization and sustainment office, said Thursday at the Surface Navy Association’s conference. “Both LCS variants -- you're going to see the Navy significantly investing in increasing the value and survivability of...