Options for combining the Navy's and the Coast Guard's small combatant programs.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Labs, Eric Jackson

Contributor:

United States. Congressional Budget Office

Series:

CBO papers

CBO paper

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Navy--Appropriations and expenditures.

United States.

United States. Coast Guard--Appropriations and expenditures.

United States. Coast Guard.

United States. Navy.

Warships--United States--Design and construction.

Warships.

Government vessels--United States.

Government vessels.

Ships--Purchasing--United States.

Ships.

Armed Forces--Appropriations and expenditures.

Expenditures, Public.

Ships--Purchasing.

Warships--Design and construction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 22 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Congress of the United States, Congressional Budget Office, [2009]

Summary:

As part of their long-term procurement strategies, the Navy and the Coast Guard are each in the process of developing and building two types of small combatants. The Navy is building two versions of its new littoral combat ship, and the Coast Guard is building replacements for its existing classes of high-endurance cutters and medium-endurance cutters. Although all four types of ship are about the same size, they are designed to perform different missions. If the Navy's and Coast Guard's plans for their small combatant programs are fully implemented, the two services combined will spend over $47 billion over the next 20 years purchasing 83 of those ships. In light of the many pressures on the budgets of the Navy and the Coast Guard, some policymakers and analysts have questioned whether the services could combine their small combatant programs in ways that still meet their requirements but save money. This Congressional Budget Office (CBO) paper, prepared at the request of the Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, examines three alternatives that might allow the Navy and the Coast Guard to consolidate their small combatant programs.

Contents:

Summary and introduction

Types of missions performed by small combatants

The Navy's and the Coast Guard's current small combatants

The Navy's and the Coast Guard's future small combatants

Key characteristics of the services' small combatant programs under current acquisition plans

Alternatives tot he services' current acquisition plans.

Notes:

Title from PDF title screen (CBO, viewed Oct. 13, 2009).

"Eric J. Labs ... wrote the paper"--Page [iii].

"July 2009."

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Labs, Eric Jackson. Options for combining the Navy's and the Coast Guard's small combatant programs.

Online version: Labs, Eric Jackson. Options for combining the Navy's and the Coast Guard's small combatant programs.

OCLC:

427718725

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