Joe DePietro, vice president of Lockheed Martin Small Combatants and Ship Systems, discusses the variant of the company’s Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ship — with Fincantieri Marinette Marine — being proposed for the US Navy’s FFG(X) frigate program with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Surface Navy Association’s 2019 conference and tradeshow in Northern Virginia. We are an SNA media partner and our coverage was sponsored by Huntington Ingalls Industries, GE Marine, L3 Technologies and Leonardo DRS.