The Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Vern Clark, has repeatedly expressed his strong support, as has virtually every former CNO.

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Vern Clark, the service invented a smaller, cheaper warship called the Littoral Combat Ship that broke the mold on naval design and acquisition while potentially offering a warfighting system better suited to emerging threats than the legacy vessels already in the fleet.

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