In a program chosen for affordability that the gao has reported has doubled in cost with a potential for future overruns. Like so many major programs that preceded it though cs failure predictably from an inability to stabilize requirements and roofs date cost estimates and unreliable assessments of technical and integration risks race made worse by repeatedly buying ships ignition packages before proving they are affected and can be operate together. What is so disturbing is that these problems were not unforeseen. In 2002, the navy first requested congress authorize funding for the lcs program. After reading the plan that two Armed Services committees said quote lcs has not been vetted through the pentagons top requirements. The second article of the joint requirements oversight counsel the Navy Strategy for the lcs does not clearly identify the plan and funding for development in the valuation of Mission Packages upon which the operational capabilities of lcs will depend. Despite su