PEO Ships: A Shipbuilding Primer
The Navy's Program Executive Office for Ships (PEO/S) is sharpening its shipbuilding management strategy through a top-level appraisal of Navy and shipyard practices to meet higher expectations from Navy and DOD leadership and Congress. The office head, Rear Admiral Bill Landay, noted this is in part a response to criticism leveled two years ago by the three about cost overruns in the Littoral Combat Ship program, which led to termination of two LCS prototypes before the program was reorganized.
