The Pentagon and the Navy are fighting over a $23 billion combat ship

Thomson Reuters The fight between the Defense Department and the Navy over the service’s $23 billion Littoral Combat Ship program is heating up just as the Pentagon prepares to release its budget for the next fiscal year. The fracas revolves around a recent report by the Pentagon’s chiefs weapons tester that examined the ship’s performance in two exercises last year and found it had difficulty repelling smaller vessels, like the kind favored by Iran’s navy and other potential opponents....