The Navy is pushing back the contract award for a new frigate until fiscal year 2020, as the service revises its requirements and acquisition strategy, officials revealed in testimony today. A frigate "requirement evaluation team" at the Pentagon is investigating "the feasibility of incorporating additional capabilities and enhanced survivability features into the current frigate designs, as well as [exploring] other hull forms," according to written testimony prepared for a May 3 House Armed Services seapower and projection forces subcommittee hearing...
