The UNITED STATE Navy has actually granted Marinette Marine Corporation with the information layout and also building and construction agreement for as much as 10Guided Missile Frigates

The preliminary agreement covers one base ship for $795 million and also as much as 9 added ships which might bring the overall worth to greater than $5.5 billion if all choices are worked out.

The Guided Missile Frigates will certainly be the Navy’s most recent course of battleships, with multi-mission capacity to carry out air war, anti-submarine war, surface area war, digital war, and also info procedures.

“The Navy’s Guided-Missile Frigate (FFG(X)) will be an important part of our future fleet,” stated Chief of Naval Operations,Adm Mike Gilday. “FFG(X) is the evolution of the Navy’s Small Surface Combatant with increased lethality, survivability, and improved capability to support the National Defense Strategy across the full range of military operations. It will no doubt help us conduct distributed maritime operations more effectively, and improve our ability to fight both in contested blue-water and littoral environments.”

The procurement procedure for the frigates was introduced in 2017. It introduced the information layout and also building and construction Request for Proposals last June with technological propositions obtained in August and also expense propositions were obtained inSeptember Competitors for the agreement consisted of Huntington Ingalls Industries, a group containing General Dynamics and also Spain’s Navantia, and also Austal.

Marinette Marine Corporation of Marinette, Wisconsin is a subsidiary of Italian shipbuilderFincantieri