Joe Courtney actually said...

"If the follow-on frigate can expand on the lethality and survivability further, I believe it will be exactly in line with the distributed fleet concept that our Navy leaders continue to say that we ne..."

"We cannot afford nor does it make sense to simply build highly advanced yet very expensive destroyers."

"There has been much debate during the history of the littoral combat ship and the debate of its successor, a new class of frigate, and, again, we are back at it."

"Thank you, Chairman Wittman."