Future Fleet Project. What Can We Afford?

Abstract

Many factors affect the size and make up of the Navy's fleet. Not the least of these is the amount of money available to recapitalize the ships and submarines that comprise the fleet. Recent assessments by the Congressional Budget Office show that the funds needed to support the Navy's current thirty-year shipbuilding plan will need to increase by about a third over the average funds used by the Navy during the past thirty years. This paper explores fiscally-constrained modernization strategies for the Navy's future fleet designed to achieve key priorities, such as recapitalization of the sea-based nuclear deterrent, while minimizing reductions to other components of the plan.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 21, 2016
Accession Number
AD1024458

Entities

People

  • Chris Wright
  • Duy N. Bui
  • Mark Lewellyn
  • Rodney Yerger

Organizations

  • Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircraft Carriers
  • Aircraft Equipment
  • Airframes
  • Amphibious Ships
  • Boats
  • Carrier Based Aircraft
  • Fighter Aircraft
  • Flight Decks
  • Ford-Class
  • Landing Craft
  • Littoral Combat Ships
  • Marine Transportation
  • National Security
  • Naval Operations
  • Naval Vessels (Combatant)
  • Naval Warfare
  • Navy
  • Nuclear Powered Submarines
  • Short Takeoff Aircraft
  • Tilt Rotor Aircraft
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Economics
  • Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering.