Navy Shipbuilding: Opportunities Exist to Improve Practices Affecting Quality

Abstract

The Navy expects to spend about $15 billion per year to provide its fleet with the most advanced ships to support national defense and military strategies. Problems with recently delivered ships have focused attention on quality issues. House Report No. 112-110, accompanying the Department of Defense Appropriations Bill, 2012, mandated that GAO review the Navy's quality assurance processes for new ship construction. This report discusses, among other issues, (1) quality problems in constructing recently delivered ships and Navy actions to improve quality and (2) key practices employed by leading commercial ship buyers and shipbuilders to ensure quality and how these compared with Navy practices. GAO analyzed Navy data on ship quality from 2006 to May 2013 and spoke with Navy officials and shipbuilders. GAO also reviewed deficiency data for commercial ships and spoke with buyers and builders.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2013
Accession Number
ADA589634

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boats
  • Business Administration
  • Congress
  • Engineers
  • Management Personnel
  • Marine Transportation
  • Naval Operations
  • Naval Warfare
  • Navy
  • Organizational Structure
  • Shipbuilding
  • Test And Evaluation
  • United States Government
  • Uss Arleigh Burke
  • Uss George H.W. Bush
  • Uss Virginia

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering.