Building a 21st Century Infrastructure for America: Coast Guard Sea, Air, and Land Capabilities: Part II

Abstract

Chairman Hunter, Ranking Member Garamendi, distinguished members of the subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today to discuss building a 21st century infrastructure for America: Coast Guard sea, air, and land capabilities. As requested, my testimony focuses on Coast Guard ship acquisition. I have been working on military ship acquisition issues for Congress for 33 years, including Coast Guard ship acquisition issues for almost 20 years.1 I currently maintain CRS reports for Congress on cutter acquisition and the polar icebreaker program.2 For additional reference, this statement includes a summary of acquisition lessons learned for Navy shipbuilding in Appendix A, and some considerations on the use of warranties in shipbuilding contracts in Appendix B.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 25, 2017
Accession Number
AD1172074

Entities

People

  • Ronald O'Rourke

Organizations

  • Library of Congress

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Attack Submarines
  • Budgets
  • Coast Guard
  • Coast Guard Ships
  • Congress
  • Construction
  • Contractors
  • Contracts
  • Costs
  • Department Of Defense
  • Economic Analysis
  • Government Procurement
  • Governments
  • Guarantees
  • Infrastructure
  • Lessons Learned
  • Life Cycles
  • Marine Transportation
  • Navy
  • Procurement
  • Shipbuilding
  • United States Government

Readers

  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Maritime Security/Maritime Homeland Security
  • Public Financial Management and Budgeting