USS Pierre Completes Sea Trials, Closing a Chapter for the Navy’s Independence-Class LCS

Software defects resolved and full-rate decision reached for IRST

Following delays and software defects, full-rate production has been approved for the F/A-18 E/F Infrared Search and Track system, according to a Navy spokesperson, with an acquisition decision memorandum scheduled to be signed this summer. After achieving initial operational capability in November 2024, the IRST Block II program was scheduled to reach a full-rate production decision by January. However, this was pushed back due to delays in fli…

Alabama-made final Independence-class littoral combat ship successfully completes acceptance trials - Alabama News Center

The U.S. Navy successfully completed acceptance trials for the future USS Pierre (LCS 38) at Austal USA in Mobile the week of June 9. These trials, marking the final Independence variant LCS acceptance trials, achieved the highest measured quality in 15 years. This trial marks the final significant milestone prior to ship delivery. Following the ship’s commissioning later this fall, LCS 38 will be homeported in San Diego, California. Pierre will…

USS Pierre passes sea trials and will soon become San Diego’s newest littoral combat ship

USS Pierre — the last of the Navy’s troubled Independence class of littoral combat ships — has passed its sea trials and will be commissioned in San Diego this fall, the Navy says. The Pierre was built in Mobile, Ala., by Austal USA, which recently tested the ship under the guidance of the Navy. Austal previously built 18 other littoral combat ships, most of them homeported in San Diego. The 418-foot high-speed ship was designed to perform mine …

USS Pierre completes sea trials, closing a chapter for the Navy’s Independence-class LCS

The Navy’s last Independence-class littoral combat ship successfully completed sea trials, a bittersweet milestone for a group of vessels that were once planned to be a bigger part of the service’s future.

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By: Karli Yeager / Naval Sea Systems Command The U.S. Navy successfully completed acceptance trials for the future USS Pierre (LCS 38) at Austal USA in Mobile the week of June 9. These trials, marking the final Independence variant LCS acceptance trials, achieved the highest measured quality in 15 years. This trial marks the final significant milestone prior to ship delivery. Following the ship’s commissioning later this fall, LCS 38 will be hom…