Pentagon Blocks Littoral Combat Ship Overrun From a GAO Report
- Security office rejects including the numbers for publication
- Data on troubled ships called ‘sensitive but unclassified’
The Littoral Combat Ship
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The Pentagon office that reviews information to determine whether it’s classified has blocked publication of potentially embarrassing data on cost overruns for the first two vessels bought under the Navy’s primary Littoral Combat Ship contracts, according to a new congressional audit.
In a report examining Navy shipbuilding contracts, the U.S. Government Accountability Office deleted overrun information on two of the Littoral Combat Ships launched in late 2014 -- the USS Milwaukee built by Lockheed Martin Corp. and the USS Jackson built by Austal Ltd. -- at the request of the Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review.