Download or read book Why Has the Cost of Navy Ships Risen written by Mark V. Arena and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2006 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past several decades, increases in acquisition costs for U.S. Navy combatants have outpaced the rate of inflation. To understand why, the authors of this book examined two principal source categories of ship cost escalation (economy-driven factors and customer-driven factors) and interviewed various shipbuilders. Based on their analysis, the authors propose some ways the Navy might reduce ship costs in the future.
Download or read book Why Has the Cost of Navy Ships Risen A Macroscopic Examination of the Trends in U S Naval Ship Costs Over the Past Several Decades written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past four decades, the growth of U.S. Navy ship costs has exceeded the rate of inflation. This cost escalation concerns many in the Navy and the government. The real growth in Navy ship costs means that ships are becoming more expensive and outstripping the Navy's ability to pay for them. Given current budget constraints, the Navy is unlikely to see an increase in its shipbuilding budget. Therefore, unless some way is found to get more out of a fixed shipbuilding budget, ship cost escalation means that the size of the Navy will inevitably shrink. In fact, by some estimates, even boosting the shipbuilding budget from $10 billion annually to $12 billion would only help the Navy achieve a fleet of 260 ships by the year 2035 rather than the nearly 290 it now has (CBO, 2005). To better understand the magnitude of ship cost escalation and its implications, the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations asked the RAND Corporation to explore several questions. These include the magnitude of cost escalation, how ship cost escalation compares with other areas of the economy and other weapon systems, the sources of cost escalation, and what might be done to reduce or minimize ship cost escalation.
Download or read book Why Have Navy Ship Costs Risen written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cost of U.S. Navy ships has risen faster than inflation indexes in recent decades. These cost increases are similar to those for other weapon systems and are driven in part by increasing complexity of ships. To reduce costs, the Navy may wish to consider stable or modular designs, slower increases in complexity, or mission-focused ships, or even to change how it purchases ships (e.g., make multiyear buys). Some manufacturing investments for greater efficiency in production can help reduce costs as well.
Download or read book An Enterprise Model of Rising Ship Costs Loss of Learning Due to Time Between Ships and Labor Force Instability written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the end of the Cold War, the perceived need for Navy ships has dropped, and so the shipbuilding budget has dropped. Seemingly coincidental with this budgetary pressure, and perversely aggravating the problem, ship costs began to rise steeply. We will set aside that ships have grown in weight by about three percent per year since World War II and that ever- more weapon systems are being put into them, and confine ourselves to discussions of costs rising for ships beyond the increase in content. We will also set aside rises due to commodity prices and inflation and that fewer ships, divided among a fixed industrial base, reduce the base for overhead and reduce opportunity for the effects of quantity-driven learning; these effects are well understood, and yet cost growth in ships exceeds that which they explain. This paper will show two additional effects, each of which causes ship direct labor to rise in a way that has never been adequately modeled. The paper will demonstrate, via a statistically significant model, cost growth both from loss of learning due to increased time between ship starts as well as from the lessening of efficiency due to inexperienced labor caused by fluctuating demand.
Download or read book Navy Maintenance written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Navy Contracting written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Navy Has Opportunities to Reduce Ship Overhaul Costs written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Navy Ships Seawolf Cost Increases and Schedule Delays Continue written by United States. General Accounting Office. National Security and International Affairs Division and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Navy Ships written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Increase in the Limits of Cost of Certain Naval Vessels written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Naval Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Navy LPD 17 Amphibious Ship Procurement written by Ronald O'Rourke and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Navy¿s FY 2011-2015 shipbuilding plan calls for procuring an 11th and final San Antonio (LPD-17) class amphibious ship in FY 2012. The Navy estimates the procurement cost of this ship at $2 billion. The ship received $184 million in FY 2010 advance procurement funding, and the Navy plans to request the remaining $1.9 billion of the cost in the FY 2012 budget. Accordingly, the Navy¿s proposed FY 2011 budget does not request any procurement funding for the LPD-17 program. Contents of this report: (1) Intro.; (2) Amphibious Ships in General; LPD-17 Program; (3) Issues for Congress. Appendix A. Amphibious Lift Goal; Appendix B. LPD-17 Cost Growth and Construction Problems. Illus. This is a print on demand report.
Download or read book Long Term Outlook for the U S Navy s Fleet written by Eric J. Labs and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the challenges that the Navy is facing in its plans for building its future fleet. This testimony examined these matters: (1) the Navy¿s draft shipbuilding plan for fiscal year 2011; (2) the effect that replacing Ohio class submarines with a new class of submarines will have on the Navy¿s shipbuilding program; and (3) the number of ships that may be needed to support ballistic missile defense from the sea. Before discussing those issues, the author briefly recaps an analysis of the 2009 shipbuilding plan as a point of departure for examining the draft 2011 plan. Charts and tables.
Download or read book A Preliminary Analysis of Advance Appropriations as a Budgeting Method for Navy Ship Procurements written by Irv Blickstein and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2002 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A companion piece to MR-1526 that examines the pros and cons of applying advance appropriations across a broader segment of the Navy shipbuilding program than just aircraft carriers. The entire cost of a ship is normally included in the congressional budget for the year of construction start, which can cause large year-to-year fluctuations in the shipbuilding budget and complicate budget management. This report analyzes an alternative strategy, advance appropriations, whereby the full cost of a ship is distributed over several budget years. This strategy can reduce fluctuations in the budget level and can create the equivalent of a loan against future budgets, but also constrains management flexibility in coping with unexpected events.
Download or read book Building a 600 ship Navy written by Peter T. Tarpgaard and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Building Naval Vessels A Handbook of Shipyard Costs written by KAITZ (EDWARD M) AND ASSOCIATES INC WASHINGTON DC. and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study investigates and analyzes the shipyard cost of naval combatants, i.e., the costs of those elements of the total ship system for which the shipbuilder is responsible, namely, the costs to the shipbuilder of the construction and assembly of the platform. The analysis, confined to the cost of frigate-sized follow ships, focused on wage scales for production-line and non-production line workers; overhead costs, including supplemental labor costs and fringe benefits; and costs of materials used by the shipyard. The study examines shipyard costs during the 1965/1969 period with costs currently experienced by the shipyard. Based on this analysis, the increased cost at the shipyard of frigate-sized naval combatants can be explained by the following factors: (1) the general inflationary trend within the U.S. economy; (2) increased overhead costs; (3) general increases in capital and energy costs; (4) underutilization of the full capacity of specific segments of the shipbuilding industry; and (5) increased complexity of the modern naval combatant. (Author).
Download or read book Report on Survey and Analysis of Differences Between U S Navy Shipbuilding Costs at Naval and Private Shipyards written by Arthur Andersen & Co and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life cycle Costs of Selected Navy Ships written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Budget Office has analyzed the impact of operation and support and other types of costs on the total life-cycle costs of four classes of Navy ships. The analysis, which aims to provide context for assessing the costs of the new littoral combat ship (LCS), focuses on the following ship programs: MCM-1 Avenger class mine countermeasures ships, FFG-7 Oliver Hazard Perry class guided missile frigates, DDG-51 Flight IIA Arleigh Burke class guided missile destroyers, and CG-47 Ticonderoga class guided missile cruisers. CBO chose those four classes because they have been in the fleet for decades, data for them are readily available, and they all conduct at least one mission that the LCS is also expected to perform. Using the Department of Defense's definitions of cost categories, CBO calculated costs over the life of each type of ship in the following six categories: Research and development, Procurement, Personnel, Fuel, Other operations and support, and Disposal. The resulting total life-cycle cost is smaller than the total ownership cost of a ship, which would also include indirect personnel costs (such as for recruiting, training, and medical support) and long-term infrastructure costs (for changes in bases, housing, and other infrastructure associated with a large-scale change in the size of the Navy). CBO does not have a reliable method to estimate those additional costs, however, so it limited its analysis to a ship's life-cycle cost.
