USS Pierre (LCS-38) will be an Independence-class littoral combat ship of the United States Navy.

[5] In 2002, the United States Navy initiated a program to develop the first of a fleet of littoral combat ships.

[6] On 29 December 2010, the Navy announced that it was awarding Austal USA a contract to build ten additional Independence-class littoral combat ships.

[7][8] Pierre is being built in Mobile, Alabama by Austal USA.

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