With no price-cap deal between the Navy Department and shipbuilders for the littoral combat ship, the program is in trouble—maybe even dead in the water.

When the Navy unveiled its ambitious 30-year plan to build up its fleet, a key feature was the intention to produce a large number of a new class of relatively cheap surface combatants in what would have been a remarkably short time.

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