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China's rapidly developing military capabilities have forced US
policy makers to reconsider their own military infrastructure. The
primary concern of this book is to examine how China's military
modernisation will be factored into decisions about US Navy
programs. Several elements of China's military modernisation have
potential implications for future required US Navy capabilities.
These include theatre-range ballistic missiles (TBMs), land-attack
cruise missiles (LACMs), anti-ship cruise missiles (ASCMs),
surface-to-air missiles (SAMs), land-based aircraft, submarines,
surface combatants, amphibious ships, naval mines, nuclear weapons,
and possibly high-power microwave (HPM) devices. This book will
examine how these elements and others will influence the future of
the United States Navy.
This book examines the burning issues facing today's Navy and
Congress. Although rapid progress in aircraft and bombing
technology has caused some to question the viability of naval
warfare, the role of the navy has actually grown. The Navy is able
to move an astonishing amount of firepower to any corner of the
globe and once there, project formidable threats or punishing
misery on an opposing power. The navy has shown that it can adapt
to a new world. The book also includes an important history of the
US Navy. Contents: Preface: Unmanned Vehicles for US Naval Forces:
Background; Navy LHD-8 Amphibious Assault Ship: Background; Navy
Littoral Ship (LCS): Background; Navy Trident Submarine Conversion
(SSGN) Program: Background; Navy Amphibious Shipbuilding Programs:
Background; Navy Zumwalt (DD-21) Class Destroyer Program:
Background; Navy DD-21 Land Attack Destroyer Program; Navy DD(X)
Future Surface Combatant Program: Background; Navy CVNX Aircraft
Carrier Program: Background; Navy Aircraft Carrier Procurement:
CVN-77 'Smart Buy' Proposal; Navy New Attack Submarine (NSSN)
Program: Is It Affordable?; Navy Attack Submarine Programs:
Background; The Navy/DARPA Arsenal Ship Program; Ind
On 30 November 2001, Northrop Grumman Corporation (NOC) assumed
control of Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS), bringing to an apparent
conclusion a five-year building process of consolidation in the
ownership of the six private-sector shipyards that build the Navy's
major ships. Following NOC's acquisition of the NNS, the six yards
are now owned by two firms-NOC, which owns three of the yards, and
General Dynamics Corporation (GD), which owns the other three. The
consolidation of these shipyards under two parent firms raises
several issues, including potential saving results from
consolidation, the potential impact on competition in Navy
shipbuilding, the potential impact of shipyard employment levels,
and the potential impact of the shipyards and shipbuilding of the
political process.
The Navy's FY2011 budget proposes canceling the CG(X) program as
unaffordable and instead building an improved version of the
Arleigh Burke (DDG-51) class Aegis destroyer called the Flight III
version. This report provides background information on the CG(X)
program as it existed prior to its proposed cancellation. For
further discussion of the proposal to build Flight III DDG-51s in
lieu of CG(X)s, see CRS Report RL32109, Navy DDG-51 and DDG-1000
Destroyer Programs: Background and Issues for Congress.
The Navy wants to procure three new classes of surface combatants
-- the DDG-1000 (formerly DD(X)) destroyer, the CG(X) cruiser, and
a smaller surface combatant called the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS).
The Navy wants to procure 7 DDG-1000s, 19 CG(X)s, and 55 LCSs. The
first two DDG-1000s are to be procured in FY2007, with each ship
being split-funded (i.e., incrementally funded) across FY2007 and
FY2008. The estimated cost of each ship is $3,291 million, for a
total of $6,582 million. The FY2007 budget requests $2,568 million
in procurement funding for the two ships. The Navy estimates that
the next three DDG-1000s will cost an average of roughly $2.5
billion each. The Navy wants to procure the first CG(X) in FY2011.
The first LCS was procured in FY2005, three more were procured in
FY2006, and the Navy's proposed FY2007 budget requests $521 million
to procure two additional ships. The Navy's FY2007 unfunded
requirements list (URL) -- its "wish list" of items desired but not
included in the FY2007 budget -- includes an additional two LCSs
for an additional $520 million. The DDG-1000/CG(X) and LCS programs
raise several oversight issues for Congress, including the
affordability of the DDG-1000/CG(X) program and the acquisition ...
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