MISSION PACKAGES FOR THE LITTORAL COMBAT SHIP.

SEC. 241. MISSION PACKAGES FOR THE LITTORAL COMBAT SHIP. (a) Report Required.—Not later than March 1, 2013, the Secretary of the Navy shall, in consultation with the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation, submit to the congressional defense committees a report on the mine countermeasures warfare, antisubmarine warfare, and surface warfare mission packages for the Littoral Combat Ship. (b) Elements.—The report required by subsection (a) shall set forth the following: (1) A plan for the mission packages demonstrating that preliminary design review for every capability increment precedes Milestone B or equivalent approval for that increment. (2) A plan for demonstrating that the capability increment for each mission package, combined with a Littoral Combat Ship, on the basis of a preliminary design review and post-preliminary design review assessment, will achieve the capability specified for that increment. (3) A plan for demonstrating the survivability and lethality of the Littoral Combat Ship with its mission packages sufficiently early in the development phase of the system to minimize costs of concurrency.