PORTSMOUTH, VA -- The Navy has transferred the sponsorship of its next-generation mine countermeasures systems being developed for the Littoral Combat Ship to the service's expeditionary warfare office, according to an official. The director of expeditionary warfare (N95) in the office of the chief of naval operations is taking over sponsorship of the systems from the director of surface warfare (N96), per a recently signed memorandum of agreement, according to Capt. Hans Lynch, mine warfare branch head within N95. "N96...
