Navy Dd(X) and Lcs Ship Acquisition Programs: Oversight Issues and Options for Congress

By O’Rourke, Ronald

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Title:	Navy Dd(X) and Lcs Ship Acquisition Programs: Oversight Issues and Options for Congress
Author:	O’Rourke, Ronald
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Introduction: The Navy in FY2006 and future years wants to procure no more Arleigh Burke (DDG-51) class destroyers and instead wants to begin procuring two new classes of surface combatants -- a new destroyer called the DD(X), and a smaller surface combatant called the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS). In support of this plan, the Navy for FY2005 requested procurement funding for three final...

Table of Contents
Contents Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Surface Combatants in the Navy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Surface Combatant Force-Structure Goal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Surface Combatant Industrial Base . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Surface Combatant Acquisition Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Oversight Issues for Congress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Oversight Issues For Force-Structure Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Oversight Issues For DD(X) and CG(X) Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Oversight Issues For LCS Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Options for Congress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Options for DD(X) and CG(X) Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Options for LCS Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Legislative Activity on DD(X) and LCS Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 DD(X) Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 LCS Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Appendix A. Acronyms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Appendix B. Navy Testimony Supporting LCS as Best Approach . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Navy Testimony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Journal Articles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Appendix C. CBO and CSBA Studies Questioning LCS as Best Approach . . . . 87 CBO Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 May 2003 CSBA Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Journal Articles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90