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I remember reading that some of the push back for a new FFG(X) was the loss of jobs at Austal USA Shipyards in Mobile, Alabama and Marinette Marine in Marinette, WI. I thought that this was the primary driver for converting the Freedom Class and the Independence Class from LCS to FF/FFG. So I was wondering if this off-the-shelf design could save jobs in Mobile and Marinette. I didn't believe it was likely that Huntington Ingalls would license the National Security Cutter design to other shipyards and that such an FFG(X) would be built in  Pascagoula, Mississippi.