To amend the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 to improve the Littoral Combat Ship program of the Navy.

Amends provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 relating to the Navy's littoral combat ship program to: (1) increase from 10 to 20 the number of such ships authorized to be procured, including any ship control and weapons systems that the Secretary of the Navy determines necessary for such ships; (2) allow one or more contracts to be entered into for such procurement; and (3) require the government to be permitted to conduct a competition for an additional shipyard for ship construction, to build a design specification for that ship.

[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6494 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6494

To amend the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 to 
         improve the Littoral Combat Ship program of the Navy.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            December 2, 2010

   Mr. Taylor (for himself, Mr. Akin, Mr. Bartlett, Mr. Wittman, Mr. 
Kagen, Mr. Bonner, and Mr. Stupak) introduced the following bill; which 
            was referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 to 
         improve the Littoral Combat Ship program of the Navy.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. LITTORAL COMBAT SHIP PROGRAM.

    (a) Contract Authority.--Subsection (a) of section 121 of the 
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 (Public Law 
111-84; 123 Stat. 2190) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1)--
                    (A) by striking ``ten Littoral Combat Ships and 15 
                Littoral Combat Ship ship control and weapon systems'' 
                and inserting ``20 Littoral Combat Ships, including any 
                ship control and weapon systems the Secretary 
                determines necessary for such ships,''; and
                    (B) by striking ``a contract'' and inserting ``one 
                or more contracts''; and
            (2) in paragraph (2), by striking ``liability to'' and 
        inserting ``liability of''.
    (b) Technical Data Package.--Subsection (b)(2)(A) of such section 
is amended by striking ``a second shipyard, as soon as practicable'' 
and inserting ``another shipyard to be built to a design specification 
for that Littoral Combat Ship''.
    (c) Limitation of Costs.--Subsection (c)(1) of such section is 
amended by striking ``awarded to a contractor selected as part of a 
procurement'' and inserting ``under a contract''.
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