Shifting the Navy's manning strategy for the Littoral Combat Ship will cost the service an additional $245 million over the next five years, according to a service spokesman. Initially, the service was using a 3:2:1 concept as three crews rotated between two ships. One ship would be deployed for an extended period, while the other ship is stateside for workups and training. Now, LCS crews will use a new "Blue/Gold Plus" construct, which creates six four-ship divisions of the same...