Future Budget Requirements for the 600-ship Navy
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Page : 100 pages
File Size : 37,41 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Ships
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Page : 100 pages
File Size : 37,41 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Ships
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Author : United States. Congressional Budget Office
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Page : pages
File Size : 25,66 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Ships
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Page : 46 pages
File Size : 29,87 MB
Release : 1985
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When the Administration assumed office in January 1981, it inherited a fleet of about 480 ships, including twelve deployable carrier battle groups. Considering this fleet inadequate for U.S. defense needs, the Administration established higher force goals in almost every ship category, with the objective of building up the total number of battle force ships to over 600 by the end of the 1980s. Other key goals were an increase in deployable carrier battle groups from 12 to 15 and a comparable increase in aircraft to fly from these carriers. Concerns have been raised about the costs of attaining and maintaining this 600-ship Navy. Such concerns could be well-founded. From 1980 through 1985, the Navy's total budget grew at a real (inflation-adjusted) average annual rate of about 7 percent a year, or from $71.5 billion in 1980 (adjusted for accrual accounting) to $100.3 billion in 1985. This study estimates that, over the next decade, the Navy's budget would have to continue to increase at a real rate of between 3 and 6 percent a year to meet the Navy's goals. Such sustained growth would result in doubling the Navy budgets in constant dollars between 1980 and 1994.
Author : United States. Congressional Budget Office
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Page : 68 pages
File Size : 40,75 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Manpower policy
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Author : Etats-Unis. Congressional budget office
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Page : 120 pages
File Size : 28,58 MB
Release : 1982
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Page : 146 pages
File Size : 29,62 MB
Release : 1982
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Once the indisputably dominant power at sea, the United States has seen this dominance erode over the past two decades as a result of steady growth in Soviet naval capabilities and declining force levels in the U.S. Navy. Between 1970 and 1980 the total number of ships in the U.S. Navy fell from 847 to 538 and uniformed personnel strength declined from 675,000 to about 525,000. Although the remaining ships are newer and more capable than those retired, the Navy now has substantially fewer ships with which to sustain its peacetime commitments or to conduct wartime operations. One result has been an operational pace in recent years nearly unprecedented in peacetime. The Chief of Naval Operations recently testified that "the Navy has been at virtually a wartime operating tempo since the beginning of the Vietnam conflict and has never stood down."
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Page : 421 pages
File Size : 18,60 MB
Release : 1983
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Page : 42 pages
File Size : 31,41 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Manpower policy
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Seapower and Strategic and Critical Materials
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Page : 334 pages
File Size : 16,8 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Naval strategy
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Author : Mark V. Arena
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 29,85 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0833039210
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.