Navy to commission first LCS

The Navy's first littoral combat ship, USS Freedom, will be commissioned Nov. 8 at a 10 a.m. EST ceremony at Veterans Park, Milwaukee, Wis. Secretary of the Navy Donald Winter will deliver the principal address. A Northrop Grumman Fire Scout helicopter drone is on the ship and will remain onboard as it transits from Milwaukee to Norfolk, Va. Fire Scouts are built in part in Moss Point, Miss. (Source: Navy, Northrop Grumman, 11/05/08)