Navy plans need to allow enough time to demonstrate capability of first Littoral Combat Ships
- GAO report recommends that selection of a Flight 1 design be delayed until after experiments with the Flight 0 prototypes.
- http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05255.pdf

Navy DD(X) and LCS Ship Acquisition Programs
- CRS report by Ronald O'Rourke on congressional options.
- http://www.fas.org/man/crs/RL32109.pdf

Background and Issues for Congress
- CRS report by Ronald O’Rourke on LCS costs and alternatives.
- http://www.ndu.edu/library/docs/crs/crs_rs21305_23dec04.pdf

Littoral Combat Ship Sensors Pose Integration Challenges
- Article on the effort required to network the LCS with onboard and offboard sensors by Sandra I. Erwin
- http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/issues/2003/Dec/Littoral_Combat.htm

Lockheed Martin team unveils baseline 3 design
- Press release with details on Lockheed Martin's semi-planing monohull LCS design.
- http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=105&STORY=/www/story/04-06-2004/0002142064

Small Combat Ships and the Future of the Navy
- Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments study by Robert O. Work.
- http://www.csbaonline.org/4Publications/Archive/B.20041030.SmlCmbtShips/B.20041030.SmlCmbtShips.pdf

Littoral Combat Ship
- News and project information at Naval Technology.
- http://www.naval-technology.com/projects/littoral/index.html

Bath Iron Works LCS Fact Sheet
- General Dynamics trimaran design characteristics.
- http://www.gdbiw.com/company_overview/Programs/LCSFactSheet.pdf

Navy Announces Flight 0 Littoral Combat Ship Contract Option Awards
- Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics have been chosen to submit detailed designs and possibly build up to two prototype LCS each.
- http://www.news.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=13544

Transcript of Flight 0 contracts press conference
- Navy announcement and press questions about contracts to design and possibly build prototype LCS.
- http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/2004/tr20040528-0798.html

Lockheed Martin LCS
- Semi-planing monohull LCS design.
- http://www.lmlcsteam.com/

Global Security
- Overview, history, background and LCS designs.
- http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/lcs.htm

General Dynamics Littoral Combat Ship Team
- Trimaran hull LCS design.
- http://www.gdlcs.com/

An exploratory analysis of Littoral Combat Ships’ ability to protect Expeditionary Strike Groups
- Naval Postgraduate School thesis by Motale E. Efimba.
- http://stinet.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/fulcrum_main.pl?database=ft_u2&searchid=107751386710337&keyfieldvalue=ADA418556&filename=%2Ffulcrum%2Fdata%2FTR_fulltext%2Fdoc%2FADA418556.pdf

Sea Blade
- The original name for Lockheed Martin's LCS design and speculation on why it was dropped.
- http://www.washblade.com/2003/10-3/news/national/seablade.cfm

Naval Transformation and the Littoral Combat Ship
- Robert O. Work of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments on the small combatant in networked naval warfare.
- http://www.csbaonline.org/4Publications/Archive/P.20040218.CSBA_Releases_Repo/P.20040218.CSBA_Releases_Repo.htm

Clark moving fast to develop versatile combat ship design
- US Navy Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Vern Clark outlines need for the LCS.
- http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=66920&ran=20110

Navy sails into untested waters
- US Navy's ambitious plans for the LCS raises concerns from some members of Congress.
- http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/military/20040322-9999-news_1n22ship.html