A Mabus boondoggle? Likely.
It goes back a generation when some Rummy found the quote "I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way".
Enter the LCS "Streetfighter" small, fast, heavily armed, cheep.
Then they decided it had to be trans ocean self-deployable. As it grew missions were added. Result neither fish, nor fowl, or good red herring.
What is the Littoral Combat ship for? According to CNO Admr. Greenart, it was littoral Combat Ship" was "never intended to venture into the littorals to engage in combat".