Best practices : high levels of knowledge at key points differentiate commercial shipbuilding from Navy shipbuilding : report to congressional committees.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

United States. Government Accountability Office.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Navy--Procurement.

United States.

United States. Navy.

Shipbuilding--United States--Costs.

Shipbuilding.

Shipbuilding contracts--Prices--United States.

Shipbuilding contracts.

Defense industries--United States.

Defense industries.

Prices.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ii, 70 pages :) : illustrations, map, digital, PDF file

Other Title:

High levels of knowledge at key points differentiate commercial shipbuilding from Navy shipbuilding

Best practices in shipbuilding

Place of Publication:

[Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Govt. Accountability Office, [2009]

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Summary:

Cost growth is a prevalent problem in Navy shipbuilding programs, particularly for the first ships in new classes. In response to a mandate in the conference report accompanying the Defense Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2008, GAO undertook this review to (1) identify key practices employed by leading commercial ship buyers and shipbuilders that ensure satisfactory cost, schedule, and ship performance; (2) determine the extent to which Navy shipbuilding programs employ these practices; and (3) evaluate how commercial and Navy business environments incentivize the use of best practices. To address these objectives, GAO visited leading commercial ship buyers and shipbuilders, reviewed its prior Navy work, and convened a panel of shipbuilding experts. GAO suggests Congress consider refining required reporting to include additional design stability metrics. GAO is also making recommendations to the Secretary of Defense aimed at improving shipbuilding programs by balancing requirements and resources early, retiring technical risk and stabilizing design at key points, moving to fixed-price contracts for lead ships, evaluating in-house management capability, and assessing if the desired fleet size sufficiently constrains the cost and technical content of new ships. The Department of Defense agreed with five recommendations and partially agreed with two. GAO believes all recommendations remain valid.

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Record is based on bibliographic data in ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection. Reuse except for individual research requires license from ProQuest, LLC.

Includes bibliographical references.

Electronic reproduction. [Bethesda, Md.] : ProQuest, 2004. digital, PDF file. ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection. Mode of access: World Wide Web via ProQuest website.

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Print version: United States. Government Accountability Office. Best practices

Microfiche version: United States. Government Accountability Office. Best practices. CIS 2009 J942-367

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