LCS 4 completes contract trials

USS Coronado (LCS 4), the second Mobile, Ala.-built Independence class Littoral Combat Ship, successfully completed it final contract trials June 6 off the coast of San Diego. The Navy's Board of Inspection and Survey trial period is part of a series of post-delivery events through which the ship and its major systems are exercised. "It is clear that the changes incorporated into Coronado, based on lessons learned from the construction and operation of USS Independence, have contributed not only to her affordability, but to her operational capability," said Capt. Tom Anderson, LCS program manager. In 2015 the ship will execute an Initial Operation Test and Evaluation with its surface warfare mission package embarked and then go to sea on its first deployment. (Source: NAVSEA 06/09/14)