First, they canceled the Little Crappy Shops (LCS) program as not fit for purpose. Now it's the Constellation class Frigate program that gets the axe:
By 2024, the first ship of the class was 36 months behind schedule, with the second already considered two years behind before its keel was even laid. The plan, as I mentioned before, was to retain roughly 85% of the FREMM frigate design to expedite production, but by that point, the Constellation design retained only about 15% of its parent design. This caused a cascade of other issues, like the need to write new code for a reported 95% of the ship’s control system software due to deviations from the FREMM design it came from, and the incorporation of new equipment and systems.
The Constellation-class frigate seemed to suffer from a classic case of scope-creep, a term used to describe a program that keeps seeing new requirements tacked onto it as it develops, resulting in cost overruns and delays. As one lawmaker put it, the Navy kept chasing a 100% solution to the point where they ended up with 0% of the ship being delivered.
There's more here from the Tech Press, so this is getting attention.
As Yogi Berra once said, if you don't know where you're going you'll end up somewhere else. SECNAV should see to it that the Program Management Office finds itself somewhere else - preferably not working for the Navy. Pour encourager les autres ...