Navy CVN-21 Aircraft Carrier Program: Background and Issues for Congress

Abstract

CVN-21 is the Navy s next planned aircraft carrier. Congress has been providing advance procurement funding for the ship since FY2001. The Navy s FY2006 budget submission requests $565 million in FY2006 advance procurement funding for the ship and defers its procurement by one year, to FY2008. The Navy estimates that CVN-21 would cost about $3.2 billion to develop and about $10.5 billion to procure, for a total estimated acquisition cost of about $13.7 billion. This report will be updated as events warrant.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 25, 2005
Accession Number
ADA472848

Entities

People

  • Ronald O'Rourke

Organizations

  • Library of Congress

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircraft Carriers
  • Aircrafts
  • Boats
  • Carrier Based Aircraft
  • Catapult-Assisted Takeoff Systems
  • Cvn-79 Uss John F. Kennedy
  • Department Of Defense
  • Flight Decks
  • Naval Operations
  • Navy
  • Navy Aircraft
  • Nimitz-Class
  • Procurement
  • Ships
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Uss George H.W. Bush

Fields of Study

  • Business

Readers

  • Defense Financial Management and Audit.
  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering.