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Author : L. Dean Simmons
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Total Pages : 299 pages
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Download or read book Assessment of Options for Enhancing Surface Ship Acquisition written by L. Dean Simmons and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Assessment of Options for Enhancing Surface Ship Acquisition written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 39 pages
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Download or read book Navy Ship Acquisition: Options for Lower-Cost Ship Designs - Issues for Congress. CRS Report for Congress written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rising procurement costs for Navy ships have recently emerged as a matter of concern for both Navy officials and some Members of Congress who track Navy-related issues. Combined with constraints on ship-procurement funding, these rising costs have caused the Navy to reduce planned ship procurement rates. The issue for Congress is how to respond to rising Navy ship procurement costs. Aside from reducing planned ship procurement rates, one option would be to reduce procurement costs by shifting from currently planned designs to designs with lower unit procurement costs. Lower cost designs for attack submarines, aircraft carriers, larger surface combatants, and smaller surface combatants have been proposed in recent reports by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), DoD's Office of Force Transformation (OFT), and the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA). Options for lower cost designs can be generated by reducing ship size; shifting from nuclear to conventional propulsion; shifting from a hull built to military survivability standards to a hull built to commercial ship survivability standards; or using a common hull design for multiple classes of ships. Compared to the current Virginia-class, nuclear-powered attack submarine (SSN) design, lower cost options include a non-nuclear-powered submarine equipped with an air-independent propulsion (AIP) system and a reduced-cost SSN design using new technologies now being developed. Compared to today's large, nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, lower cost options include a medium-sized, conventionally powered carrier based on either the LHA(R) amphibious assault ship design or a commercial-like hull, and a small, high-speed carrier using a surface effect ship (SES)/catamaran hull. Compared to the current 14,000-ton DD(X) destroyer design, lower cost options include a newly designed 9,000-ton surface combatant (SC(X)), a 6,000-ton frigate (FFG(X)), or a low-cost gunfire support ship.
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Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (227 download)
Download or read book U.S. Navy Surface Ship Fleet: Propulsion Energy Evaluation, and Identification of Cost Effective Energy Enhancement Devices written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report identifies U.S. Navy surface ships that would benefit most from the retrofit of hydrodynamic energy enhancement devices. These devices reduce be required power, and consequently, the fuel needed for propulsion. A large number of potential energy enhancement devices are assessed with regard to their suitability and cost effectiveness for retrofit to U.S. Navy surface ships. A powering evaluation of the U.S. Navy surface ship fleet was prepared. This information was used to identify eleven U.S. Navy surface ship classes as candidates for consideration with regard to retrofit of energy enhancement devices. These classes possess worthwhile energy savings potential with the installation of such devices. Potential yearly energy device fuel cost savings, and long and short term potential fuel savings, were then estimate for these identified candidate ship classes. A large number of energy enhancing concepts and devices with potential for reducing delivered power requirements or improving ship energy efficiency, are identified and described. A chart of compatibility between all identified energy savings devices was prepared. Over a dozen propulsion energy enhancement devices are identified as having potential for retrofit to U.S. Navy candidate surface ship classes. Recommendations are prepared with regard to which energy enhancement devices are to be considered as cost beneficial for retrofit to each of the eleven identified candidate U.S. Navy surface ship classes.
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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428970754
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (289 download)
Download or read book Defense acquisitions : comprehensive strategy needed to improve ship cruise missile defense : report to Congressional requesters written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Navy Ship Acquisition written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rising procurement costs for Navy ships have recently emerged as a matter of concern for both Navy officials and some Members of Congress who track Navyrelated issues. Combined with constraints on ship-procurement funding, these rising costs have caused the Navy to reduce planned ship procurement rates. The issue for Congress is how to respond to rising Navy ship procurement costs. Aside from reducing planned ship procurement rates, one option would be to reduce Navy ship procurement costs by shifting from currently planned designs to designs with lower unit procurement costs. Lower-cost designs for attack submarines, aircraft carriers, larger surface combatants, and smaller surface combatants have been proposed in recent reports by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), DOD's Office of Force Transformation (OFT), and the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA). Options for lower-cost designs can be generated by reducing ship size; shifting from nuclear to conventional propulsion; shifting from a hull built to military survivability standards to a hull built to commercial-ship survivability standards; or using a common hull design for multiple classes of ships. Compared to the current Virginia-class nuclear-powered attack submarine (SSN) design, lower-cost options include a non-nuclear-powered submarine equipped with an air-independent propulsion (AIP) system and a reduced-cost SSN design using new technologies now being developed. Compared to today's large, nuclearpowered aircraft carriers, lower-cost options include a medium-sized, conventionally powered carrier based on either the LHA(R) amphibious assault ship design or a commercial-like hull, and a small, high-speed carrier using a surface effect ship (SES)/catamaran hull. Compared to the current 14,000-ton DD(X) destroyer design, lower-cost options include a new-design 9,000-ton surface combatant (SC(X)), a 6,000-ton frigate (FFG(X)), or a low-cost gunfire support ship. Compared to the current 2,500- to 3,000-ton Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) design, lower cost options include a 1,000- or 100-ton surface combatant. The FY2006 defense authorization bill (H.R. 1815) as reported by the House Armed Services Committee (H.Rept. 109-89) contains provisions that establish procurement cost caps on several Navy shipbuilding programs, direct the Navy to begin developing a lower-cost destroyer and a lower-cost nuclear-powered submarine, and create a new program for U.S. shipyards aimed in part at improving the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of the construction of Navy ships. The committee's report expressed concern regarding rising Navy ship procurement costs. In its report (S.Rept. 109-69) on the FY2006 defense authorization bill (S. 1042), the Senate Armed Services Committee expressed concern for the Navy's shipbuilding program and the committee's belief that significantly higher funding is required in the shipbuilding budget. In its report (H.Rept. 109-119) on the FY2006 defense appropriations bill (H.R. 2863), the House Armed Services Committee expressed concern over instability in Navy shipbuilding programs and rising ship costs. This report will be updated as events warrant.
Author : Robert Button
Publisher : Rand Corporation
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Download or read book Assessment of Surface Ship Maintenance Requirements written by Robert Button and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Department of Defense is likely to face years of declining resources as the U.S. government grapples with fiscal challenges. These challenges affect every account, including those associated with surface ship maintenance and operations. At the same time, there has been widespread concern that surface ship materiel readiness is declining due to a high pace of operations and a sense that there have been many instances of deferred maintenance. The need to balance fiscal reality and a continued need for ready ships is likely to be an ongoing challenge. At the request of the Assessment Division of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, this report: (1) determines the impact on long-term fleet readiness, Operational Availability (Ao), and Expected Service Life (ESL) caused by near-term reductions in Operations and Maintenance (O&M) accounts; (2) recommends potential strategies to minimize negative impacts to Ao and ESL and maintain the largest, most capable fleet possible; (3) develops a maintenance requirement concept, per ship class, that supports ESL, but allows for some risk within the maintenance strategy; and (4) defines the risks to Ao and ESL resulting from the new requirement. The methodology could be applicable to multiple ship classes.
Author : Jack E. Edwards
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1437987273
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (379 download)
Download or read book Defense Acquisition: DoD Should Clarify Requirements for Assessing and Documenting Technical-Data Needs written by Jack E. Edwards and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some DoD weapon systems remain in the inventory for decades. Therefore, decisions that program officials make during the acquisition process to acquire or not acquire rights to technical data (TD) can have far-reaching implications for DoD's ability to sustain and competitively procure parts and services for those systems. DoD needs access to TD to control costs, maintain flexibility in acquisition and sustainment, and maintain and operate systems. This report reviews the extent to which: (1) DoD has updated its acquisition and procurement policies; (2) selected acquisition programs adhered to requirements to document TD needs; and (3) DoD took actions to improve TD decisions by program managers. Illus. This is a print on demand report.
Author : J. D. Wells
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Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (227 download)
Download or read book Alternative Methods for the Analysis of Lease/Purchase Options in Naval Auxiliary Ship Acquisition written by J. D. Wells and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study is to explore alternative methods of analyzing build-and-lease (charter) versus purchase options for acquiring naval ships. Two methods are developed for calculating the total Federal Government cost of a build-and-lease program. Sensitivity analyses are made to test the cost-effects of differences in Federal Government discount rate policies, mortgage interest rates, percent of the acquisition cost that is mortgaged, and other variables.
Author : Ronald O'Rourke
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Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (647 download)
Download or read book Navy Force Structure and Shipbuilding Plans written by Ronald O'Rourke and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-14 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated 12/10/2020: In December 2016, the Navy released a force-structure goal that callsfor achieving and maintaining a fleet of 355 ships of certain types and numbers. The 355-shipgoal was made U.S. policy by Section 1025 of the FY2018 National Defense AuthorizationAct (H.R. 2810/P.L. 115- 91 of December 12, 2017). The Navy and the Department of Defense(DOD) have been working since 2019 to develop a successor for the 355-ship force-level goal.The new goal is expected to introduce a new, more distributed fleet architecture featuring asmaller proportion of larger ships, a larger proportion of smaller ships, and a new third tier oflarge unmanned vehicles (UVs). On December 9, 2020, the Trump Administration released a document that can beviewed as its vision for future Navy force structure and/or a draft version of the FY202230-year Navy shipbuilding plan. The document presents a Navy force-level goal that callsfor achieving by 2045 a Navy with a more distributed fleet architecture, 382 to 446 mannedships, and 143 to 242 large UVs. The Administration that takes office on January 20, 2021,is required by law to release the FY2022 30-year Navy shipbuilding plan in connection withDOD's proposed FY2022 budget, which will be submitted to Congress in 2021. In preparingthe FY2022 30-year shipbuilding plan, the Administration that takes office on January 20,2021, may choose to adopt, revise, or set aside the document that was released on December9, 2020. The Navy states that its original FY2021 budget submission requests the procurement ofeight new ships, but this figure includes LPD-31, an LPD-17 Flight II amphibious ship thatCongress procured (i.e., authorized and appropriated procurement funding for) in FY2020.Excluding this ship, the Navy's original FY2021 budget submission requests the procurementof seven new ships rather than eight. In late November 2020, the Trump Administrationreportedly decided to request the procurement of a second Virginia-class attack submarinein FY2021. CRS as of December 10, 2020, had not received any documentation from theAdministration detailing the exact changes to the Virginia-class program funding linesthat would result from this reported change. Pending the delivery of that information fromthe administration, this CRS report continues to use the Navy's original FY2021 budgetsubmission in its tables and narrative discussions.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Dept. of Defense
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Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)
Download or read book MX programs written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Dept. of Defense and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Defense
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Total Pages : 1540 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)
Download or read book Research, development, test, and evaluation written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Defense and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 1540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ronald O'Rourke
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ISBN 13 : 9781075833274
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (332 download)
Download or read book Navy Large Unmanned Surface and Undersea Vehicles written by Ronald O'Rourke and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-24 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Navy wants to develop and procure three new types of unmanned vehicles (UVs) in FY2020 and beyond-Large Unmanned Surface Vehicles (LUSVs), Medium Unmanned Surface Vehicles (MUSVs), and Extra-Large Unmanned Undersea Vehicles (XLUUVs). The Navy is requesting $628.8 million in FY2020 research and development funding for these three UV programs and their enabling technologies. The Navy wants to acquire these three types of UVs (which this report refers to collectively as large UVs) as part of an effort to shift the Navy to a new fleet architecture (i.e., a new combination of ships and other platforms) that is more widely distributed than the Navy's current architecture. Compared to the current fleet architecture, this more-distributed architecture is to include proportionately fewer large surface combatants (i.e., cruisers and destroyers), proportionately more small surface combatants (i.e., frigates and Littoral Combat Ships), and the addition of significant numbers of large UVs. The Navy wants to employ accelerated acquisition strategies for procuring these large UVs, so as to get them into service more quickly. The emphasis that the Navy placed on UV programs in its FY2020 budget submission and the Navy's desire to employ accelerated acquisition strategies in acquiring these large UVs together can be viewed as an expression of the urgency that the Navy attaches to fielding large UVs for meeting future military challenges from countries such as China. The LUSV program is a proposed new start project for FY2020. The Navy wants to procure two LUSVs per year in FY2020FY2024. The Navy wants LUSVs to be low-cost, high-endurance, reconfigurable ships based on commercial ship designs, with ample capacity for carrying various modular payloads-particularly anti-surface warfare (ASuW) and strike payloads, meaning principally anti-ship and land-attack missiles. The Navy reportedly envisions LUSVs as being 200 feet to 300 feet in length and having a full load displacement of about 2,000 tons. The MUSV program began in FY2019. The Navy plans to award a contract for the first MUSV in FY2019 and wants to award a contract for the second MUSV in FY2023. The Navy wants MUSVs, like LUSVs, to be low-cost, high-endurance, reconfigurable ships that can accommodate various payloads. Initial payloads for MUSVs are to be intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) payloads and electronic warfare (EW) systems. The Navy defines MUSVs as having a length of between 12 meters (about 39 feet) and 50 meters (about 164 feet). The Navy wants to pursue the MUSV program as a rapid prototyping effort under what is known as Section 804 acquisition authority. The XLUUV program, also known as Orca, was established to address a Joint Emergent Operational Need (JEON). The Navy wants to procure nine XLUUVs in FY2020-FY2024. The Navy announced on February 13, 2019, that it had selected Boeing to fabricate, test, and deliver the first four Orca XLUUVs and associated support elements. On March 27, 2019, the Navy announced that the award to Boeing had been expanded to include the fifth Orca. The Navy's large UV programs pose a number of oversight issues for Congress, including issues relating to the analytical basis for the more-distributed fleet architecture; the Navy's accelerated acquisition strategies and funding method for these programs; technical, schedule, and cost risk in the programs; the proposed annual procurement rates for the programs; the industrial base implications of the programs; the personnel implications of the programs; and whether the Navy has accurately priced the work it is proposing to do in FY2020 on the programs.
Author : Scott Savitz
Publisher : Rand Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780833081438
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (814 download)
Download or read book U.S. Navy Employment Options for Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs) written by Scott Savitz and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2013-11-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assesses in what ways and to what degree unmanned surface vehicles are suitable for supporting U.S. Navy missions and functions.
Author : Michael J. Sullivan
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1437924743
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (379 download)
Download or read book Defense Acquisitions written by Michael J. Sullivan and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DoD weapon programs often experience significant cost and schedule problems because they are allowed to start with too many technical unknowns and not enough knowledge about the development and production risks they entail. This report reviews DoD's Analysis of Alternatives (AOA) process -- intended to assess the operational effectiveness, costs, and risks of alternative weapon system solutions. This report: (1) examines whether AOAs have been effective in identifying the most promising options and providing a sound rationale for weapon program initiation; (2) determines what factors have affected the scope and quality of AOAs; and (3) assesses whether recent DoD policy changes will enhance the effectiveness of AOAs. Illus.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Seapower and Expeditionary Forces Subcommittee
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Total Pages : 80 pages
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Download or read book Integrated Nuclear Power Systems for Future Naval Surface Combatants written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Seapower and Expeditionary Forces Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Defense
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Total Pages : 1250 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Department of Defense appropriations for fiscal year 1983 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Defense and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 1250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
