CBO estimated operation and support costs in three categories: direct costs, indirect costs, and overhead costs. Indirect costs include spending for support units and organizations that enable combat units to fight effectively.
Overhead costs refer to other spending that supports combat units, such as recruiting, training, acquisition offices, major maintenance, and medical care. See Mark V. A Macroscopic Examination of the Trends in U.
Aegis is a highly sophisticated, centralized, and automated command-and-control and weapons control system that enables ships to conduct wide-area air surveillance and automatically detect, target, and engage numerous targets.
The system includes many components, the most important of which is a powerful multifunction phased-array radar. See David B. The VLS is a standardized missile launcher that can hold and fire many different Navy munitions. Eric J. Labs prepared the report with guidance from David Mosher and Edward G. David Arthur and Lilia Ledezma provided useful comments. Adebayo Adedeji fact-checked the report. The assistance of external reviewers implies no responsibility for the final product, which rests solely with CBO.
Officials from the Navy and Fincantieri Marinette Marine provided information for the analysis. Mark Doms and Jeffrey Kling reviewed the report. The editor was Elizabeth Schwinn, and the graphics editor was Casey Labrack. CBO continually seeks feedback to make its work as useful as possible. Please send any comments to communications cbo. October Download Document. Table of Contents. Notes Notes All years referred to in this report are federal fiscal years, which run from October 1 to September 30 and are designated by the calendar year in which they end.
Little if any new technology is being developed for it. The contractor is an experienced builder of small surface combatants. Historically the Navy has almost always underestimated the cost of the lead ship, and a more expensive lead ship generally results in higher costs for the follow-on ships. Compared with the design on which it is based, the FFG X will be more densely built and will have somewhat more complex weapon systems.
If costs rise enough to threaten the financial viability of the shipbuilder, the Navy may opt to cover some of those higher costs rather than experience a disruption in a shipbuilding program that it considers essential. Background After a yearlong competition among four shipbuilders, the Navy selected Fincantieri Marinette Marine to build the lead ship and up to nine more ships of the FFG X class of guided missile frigates.
Naval Institute July ; : Just got over here from the old site. Hence the dates. Contact Craig Hooper: Email Contact: craig. Hooper has masterfully articulated a Fleet-wide concern that sometimes gets little attention when considering the Navy's overall shipbuilding strategy Like many of us who began our careers in the Cold War era, when the oilers were always guaranteed to be on station when needed, it is easy to take them for granted.
So Dr. Hooper's analysis and apprehension should serve as a wake-up call to Fleet planners Hooper has enlightened us, and we should heed the call I live in the Marina District of San Francisco. At a later point in time, separate contracts were to be awarded for construction of groups of these ships. This was a quite different approach than that used for the DD Program, where one contractor was developing, engineering and producing a whole program's worth of ships.
Finally, contracts were structured so that the Navy would not be committed to a block purchase of ships until any cost, schedule, or technical problems were overcome. On 12 April , two cost-plus-fixed-fee contracts were awarded to support this Ship System Design Support program: one for the designated lead yard at Bath Iron Works; and the second, to Todd Shipyards Corp.
Subscribe Now! Sign In Sign Out. Despite these problems, the Navy seems determined to operate the ship as if it were a useful asset. That being the case, one has to wonder why the Navy wants to operate the ship. Why not park the ships and leave them idle pending the onset of a major war?
Park the ships and save operating budget as well as wear and tear on the ships. From Wiki, a white elephant is a possession which its owner cannot dispose of and whose cost, particularly that of maintenance, is out of proportion to its usefulness.
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