The Navy will build its Littoral Combat Ship presence in the Western Pacific to six vessels in the next few years, a top service official said today. Commander of Naval Surface Forces Vice Adm. Roy Kitchener told reporters today that the service will have LCS well into the future. “As far as the [trimaran-hulled] Independence class, we continue to deploy them to the Western Pacific, trying to keep that 3.0 presence out there and build it, probably to around six...