In a memo SECDEF directed the USN to reduce the planned LCS buy from 52 to 40 and to slow the pace at which the sea frames are acquired. SECDEF directed that the resources freed up shall be used instead to buy additional F-35s, F/A-18s, weapons and to fund NGJ along with other surface and sub programs.
http://news.usni.org/2015/12/16/sec...t-ship-program-to-40-hulls-single-shipbuilder
http://news.usni.org/2015/12/16/sec...t-ship-program-to-40-hulls-single-shipbuilder