Congressional Watchdog Advises Slowing Spending on Ship

Congress should consider slowing funding for the Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship because the Pentagon is buying vessels faster than it can test their design and performance, according to a Government Accountability Office report.

The Navy hasn’t completed “technical studies that raise fundamental questions about whether the program, as envisioned, will meet the Navy’s needs,” the GAO, Congress’s nonpartisan investigative arm, says in a draft report obtained by Bloomberg News.