sentences:  Three received follow-on contracts in January 1997, but the Navy had lost enthusiasm for the project with Boorda's suicide in May 1996, and in April 1997 the Arsenal Ship was redesignated as the Maritime Fire Support Demonstrator (MFSD), which would be a technology demonstrator for a revitalised SC-21 program.As a result, Congress cut funding to the project and it was finally canceled in October 1997.The Arsenal Ship concept was revived in 2002 by converting four "Ohio"-class submarines into SSGNs carrying 154 VLS tubes.