To build ships faster, the Navy needs to change how it designs them

Two days earlier Thanksgiving, Navy Secretary John Phelan announced the cancellation of the $22 cardinal 20 vessel Constellation multi-mission frigate program. The ship was meant to beryllium susceptible of conducting anti-air, anti-surface, anti-submarine and electromagnetic warfare some successful littoral areas and connected the precocious seas. The Navy had already spent about $2 cardinal of the $7.6 billion that the Congress had…