But I advised companies on both sides of the Littoral Combat System competition, and I saw how desperate they were to avoid being underbid.

FORBES: Low-Cost Warship Rescues Navy From Shrinking Fleet

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.

FORBES: Low-Cost Warship Rescues Navy From Shrinking Fleet