Despite higher cost estimates for the Navy's Remote Minehunting System, designed for use from Littoral Combat Ships, the Pentagon has told the service to move forward with the effort. In December, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus informed Congress the program had breached a congressionally mandated cost threshold. The Navy attributed the Nunn-McCurdy breach to the elimination of the system from the nascent anti-submarine warfare mission package for LCS, halving the planned buy of the systems from 108 to 54. At an...
