Navy advances LSM block I with technical data awards to Bollinger, Damen

Navy advances LSM block I with technical data awards to Bollinger, Damen

The Navy has advanced plans to build an off-the-shelf Landing Ship Medium with an Aug. 8 contract award to shipbuilder Bollinger under which the service has established a licensing agreement and acquired the technical data package for the Israeli Logistics Support Vessel design set to become the first “block I” LSM. With this award to Bollinger -- which previously built ILSVs for Israel -- the Navy moves closer to the start of construction on th…