{"id":8190,"date":"2011-01-03T16:18:23","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T00:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=8190"},"modified":"2011-01-03T16:18:23","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T00:48:23","slug":"navy-awards-two-contracts-to-build-new-combat-ships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=8190","title":{"rendered":"Navy Awards Two Contracts to Build New Combat Ships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/12\/30\/business\/global\/30ships.html?_r=1&amp;nl=todaysheadlines&amp;emc=tha24\">New York Times reports<\/a> that Lockheed Martin and Austal USA got nice Christmas gifts from the Navy:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The Navy on Wednesday awarded two companies contracts that could be  worth a total of more than $7 billion to build 20 of its new littoral  combat ships, splitting the purchase to obtain the vessels more quickly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Navy officials said that if it exercises all of its options under the contracts, <a title=\"More information about Lockheed Martin\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/business\/companies\/lockheed_martin_corporation\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\">Lockheed Martin<\/a> would assemble 10 of the coastal warships for $3.62 billion over six  years and Austal USA, a unit of an Australian company, would build 10  for $3.52 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The littoral combat ship (LCS) is the U.S. Navy&#8217;s response to China&#8217;s fast shallow-water naval vessels.\u00a0\u00a0 This new ship design highlights the changing nature of naval warfare and the geopolitical importance of the Asia Pacific region.<\/p>\n<p>Austal USA also built the two Hawaii Superferry ships, which were prototypes for the Joint High Speed Vessel (JHSV), a major contract that Austal USA recently won from the US Navy.\u00a0 Activists opposed to the Hawaii Superferry pointed out that the ferry was just a front for these larger military plans.\u00a0 At the time, these theories were ridiculed by the media and politicians.\u00a0 But it seem now that the activists were right. And Austal is laughing all the way to the bank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times reports that Lockheed Martin and Austal USA got nice Christmas gifts from the Navy: The Navy on Wednesday awarded two companies contracts that could be worth a total of more than $7 billion to build 20 of its new littoral combat ships, splitting the purchase to obtain the vessels more quickly. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=8190\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Navy Awards Two Contracts to Build New Combat Ships&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2409],"class_list":["post-8190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-movements-resistance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8190"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8192,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8190\/revisions\/8192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}