In June 2009, FY2010 budget documents revealed that the total costs of the two lead ships had risen to $637 million for The Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that deploying the first two ships will delay the overall program because these two ships were not available for testing and development so changes may have to be made in the second pair of ships during construction instead of in advance.On 2 December 2016, it was reported that the GAO was critical of the LCS's ability to complete a navy requirement of 30 consecutive days underway without a critical failure of one or more essential subsystems. Lockheed Martin's LCS-5 had a contractual price of $437 million, Austal USA's contractual price for LCS-6 was $432 million. Almost any existing design that can be adapted to The concept behind the littoral combat ship, as described by former Most of the mission modules' functions are performed by carried vehicles such as helicopters or unmanned vehicles such as the A 2010 report by the Pentagon's director of operational test and evaluation (DOT&E) found that neither design was expected to "be survivable in a hostile combat environment" and that neither ship could withstand the Navy's full ship shock trials.The combat abilities of the LCS were said to be "very modest" even before the cancellation of the The ships are planned to have a 3:2:1 manning concept. The SSC will focus on anti-submarine and anti-surface warfare; mine countermeasures will be handled by existing LCS ships. When emphasized on ASW, the ships will combine the fixed multi-function towed sonar array with the mission package's variable depth sonar to have "the most effective ASW sensor platform in the Navy." The top 2 teams of the regular season receive a For the league formerly known as the European League of Legends Championship Series, see Increment two will be the coastal battlefield reconnaissance and analysis system (COBRA) mounted on the MQ-8B to search beaches and surf zones.In February 2016, the Navy announced they were halting procurement of the RMMV due to reliability issues, with the existing ten RMMVs to be upgraded to increase reliability.The Navy included an irregular warfare package in its 2012 budget request to Congress.The Navy committed to the $15 billion (2003) program in advance of rigorous analysis or clearly defined purpose, appearance, or survivability. Proponents typically pointed to its speed, asymmetric littoral threats, and impact on the U.S. shipbuilding industry. The League of Legends Championship Series (LCS) is the top level of professional League of Legends in the United States and Canada.The esports league is run by Riot Games and has ten franchise teams. This cut is to reallocate funds to other priorities including buying more In February 2020, media reports stated that the U.S. Navy as part of its fiscal 2021 budget has proposed to retire the first four LCS ships in 2021 as part of a cost-savings measure. On 29 December 2010, Department of Navy Undersecretary Sean Stackley noted that the program was well within the Congressional cost cap of $480 million per ship. The result is a 50% reduction in ships and a 25% reduction in crews (and smaller crew sizes) than traditional deployment practices.The LCS is the first USN surface combatant class in a generation to not use the The LCS is reconfigured for various roles by changing mission packages, each of which includes mission module equipment (weapon systems, sensors, etc. The average per-ship target price for Lockheed ships is $362 million, Stackley said, with a goal of $352 million for each Austal USA ships. The MCM module includes the Airborne Laser Mine Detection system, the Airborne mine neutralization system, the The first increment of the MCM module included three systems: the helicopter-deployed airborne laser mine detection system (ALMDS); the airborne mine neutralization system (AMNS); and the remote minehunting system (RMS) composed of the remote multi-mission vehicle (RMMV) paired with the AQS-20A sonar. The 2017 NA LCS season was the fifth year of the North American League of Legends Championship Series (NA LCS), a professional esports league for the MOBA PC game League of Legends.It was divided into spring and summer splits, each consisting of a regular season and playoff stage, and also included a promotion tournament and a regional qualifiers for the World Championship. Other enhancements include spaced armor, installation of The decision was made on SSC upgrade features to prioritize over-the-horizon surface and ASW capabilities with a greater degree of self-defense, not anti-aircraft or missile defense, which will be left to large surface combatants. In order to increase commonality, the Navy will force both types to use the same combat system electronics.The handoff from General Dynamics to Austal of management for the Independence class led to a 13-month schedule slip as the company struggled with building the JHSV ships at the same facilities.A 2012 report by Rear Admiral Samuel Perez, USN, found that the ships lacked the manpower and firepower to complete the missions required by regional combatant commanders. Adding a vertical launch system was evaluated, but was determined to be too heavy and large and requiring long and costly changes; modular aspects of the ships may allow for the addition of the smaller Mk 56 VLS for the Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile. The LoL Championship Series (colloquially know as the LCS) is Riot Games' North American franchised league. It also found that the excessive beam (width) of the trimaran Independence class ships may pose a "navigational challenge in narrow waterways and tight harbors".In 2013, Captain Kenneth Coleman, the U.S. Navy's requirements officer for the program, identified the LCS as being especially vulnerable to tactical aircraft armed with standoff anti-ship missiles.At a hearing on 25 July 2013, the House Armed Services Committee's seapower subcommittee argued with Hagel was concerned that the LCS would make up one-sixth of the Navy's 300-ship force. 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