“Programs that have had cost problems or performance problems are going to be subject to renegotiation,” said Bryan Clark, a defense analyst at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. The LCS program is “tailor-made for the new administration to revisit.”

The deadline for submitting budgets to OSD is Thursday, the senior defense official said, adding that the Navy's will not incorporate the cuts. Ultimately that means that Carter's budget wonks will have to do the cutting themselves and the Navy may not like what they decide to cut, said Bryan Clark, a retired submarine officer and analyst with the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments… 

The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, one of the three participants, last week unveiled one piece of that future fleet in a report called “Amphibious Operations in an Era of Precision Weapons.” 

The US Navy (USN) and US Marine Corps (USMC) should consider developing and building 'light carrier'-type ships to support littoral operations associated with amphibious missions, the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA) recommended in a report published on 16 November.

Bryan Clark of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments discusses the new report co-authored with Jesse Sloman — “Amphibious Operations in an Era of Precision Weapons” — with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the United States Navy Memorial.

Amphibious operations will remain a vital component of future U.S. military capabilities, but the proliferation of long-range, precision anti-ship and aircraft defense systems could make the conduct of such operations using current tactics, platforms and weapons prohibitively deadly.