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The U.S. Navy Can’t Build New Warships: The Constellation-Class Frigate Crisis
Key Point and Summary – On November 25, 2025, the U.S. Navy killed the Constellation-class frigate after delays, redesigns, ...
According to the Navy’s FY 2025 shipbuilding plan, the service intends to move toward a fleet mix that includes fewer small ...
Secretary of the Navy John Phelan announced a "strategic shift" away from the Constellation-class frigate program this week ...
The U.S. Navy has ended its commitment to four of the six Constellation-class frigates being built by Fincantieri Marinette ...
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How the Navy’s Worst Procurement Error Became Even Bigger
As of March 2025, the U.S. Navy's Constellation-class frigate program is experiencing significant challenges that have delayed the delivery of the lead ship, USS Constellation (FFG-62), by ...
The Navy began procuring Constellation (FFG-62) class frigates (FFGs) in FY2020, and a total of four have been procured through FY2023, at a rate of one ship per year. Current Navy plans call for ...
A Fincantieri subsidiary has secured a $536.9 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to design and build the third ship in the Constellation class of guided-missile frigates. The Department ...
When the USS Lafayette hits the waters later in the decade, it will join the USS Constellation, USS Congress, and USS Chesapeake. The Navy has asserted that this incoming vessel will have the ...
The Power Systems division of Rolls-Royce has been selected to supply a further four of its mtu naval generator sets for the USS Congress (FFG-63), the second ship in the U.S. Navy’s Constellation ...
It’s called the USS Constellation (FFG 62), and as is customary with military warships, it will be the flagship of its namesake family. But not before work on it, which started on August 31 at the ...
The Navy began procuring Constellation (FFG-62) class frigates (FFGs) in FY2020, and wants to procure a total of 20 FFG-62s. Congress funded the first FFG-62 in FY2020, the second in FY2021, and the ...
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