Navy resetting approach to mine warfare, looking at alternatives to RMMV

By Justin Doubleday / February 29, 2016 at 12:19 PM
The Navy is canceling the next production round on Lockheed Martin's Remote Multimission Vehicle and instead adopting recommendations to explore alternative systems for the Littoral Combat Ship's mine countermeasures mission package. In a Feb. 24 memo, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson and Navy acquisition chief Sean Stackley direct the warfare systems office (N9) and the program executive office for LCS to develop an implementation plan for carrying out recommendations made by the Remote Minehunting System's Independent Review Team,...

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