U.S. Navy Wants Smaller Shipbuilders To Build Their Next Warship

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 Motley Fool: U.S. Navy Picks 5 Teams to Build It a $130 Million Warship 

Not one of them is named "General Dynamics" or "Huntington Ingalls." 

 Late last year, the U.S. Navy posed a question to six of its favorite military shipbuilders: Would it be possible to build a warship, 200 to 400 feet long and displacing somewhere between 1,000 and 8,000 tons, armed with multiple .50 caliber machine guns, a 30 mm chain gun, and a helicopter, and capable of attacking a beachhead with a reinforced platoon of U.S. Marines -- all for under $130 million? 

Oh, and the warship would also need to go from concept to delivery of 30 complete vessels by the end of 2026.  

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Update: Navy Awards 5 Companies Light Amphibious Warship ‘Concept Design’ Contracts (USNI News)  

WNU Editor: My gut tells me that these warships are going to be deployed to the Western Pacific, with the purpose of countering China. And as for the contract itself. It is about time the Pentagon diversifies their supply chains away from the big contractors and create a little competition.