Navy Leaders Sink Ship Names Proposed in SECNAV Modly’s Last Days
By: Ben Werner
April 8, 2020 4:57 PM • Updated: April 8, 2020 10:50 PM
In his last days in office, former acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly tried to assign names to the Navy’s new class of guided-missile frigates and the second Columbia-class nuclear ballistic-missile submarine.
He wanted the first of the new class of FFG(X) frigates, expected to be awarded in July, to be called USS Agility (FFG-80), according to a directive obtained by USNI News.
Many in the acquisitions community question the efficacy of naming a class of ship before the contract is awarded, several Navy officials told USNI News. Modly’s reasoning for suggesting Agility is detailed in a draft media statement that would have announced the naming, also obtained by USNI News, that would have been released when a formal announcement was made.
https://news.usni.org/2020/04/08/navy-leaders-sink-ship-names-proposed-in-secnav-modlys-last-days
