Ailes: PEO LCS Seeks Ways To Reduce Time It Takes To Neutralize Mines

PANAMA CITY, FL -- The program executive office for Littoral Combat Ships is taking a hard look at reducing the time it takes to find, identify and neutralize mines, even if its ultimate time-reducing set-up -- a single-pass detect-to-engage system -- remains out of reach in the near-term, officials said here earlier this month.