Navy shipbuilding: past performance provides valuable lessons for future investments.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

United States. Government Accountability Office, author, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Navy--Planning.

United States.

United States. Navy--Procurement--Evaluation.

United States. Navy--Operational readiness.

United States. Navy.

Shipbuilding--United States.

Shipbuilding.

Warships--United States.

Warships.

Risk assessment.

Risk Assessment.

risk assessment.

Armed Forces--Operational readiness.

Armed Forces--Planning.

Armed Forces--Procurement--Evaluation.

Medical Subjects:

Risk Assessment.

Genre:

handbooks.

Handbooks and manuals

Handbooks and manuals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (36 pages) : color illustrations, color photographs

Place of Publication:

[Washington, D.C.] : United States Government Accountability Office, 2018.

Summary:

Challenges in meeting shipbuilding cost, schedule, and performance goals have resulted in a less-capable and smaller fleet today than the Navy planned over 10 years ago. The Navy is now planning for the most significant fleet size increase in over 30 years, which includes some costly and complex acquisitions. This special product, which is divided into two sections, presents an overview of our work on shipbuilding programs over the past decade. The first section summarizes the Navy's acquisition outcomes for ship classes built during the last 10 years--meaning the difference between the planned versus actual cost, schedule, quality, and performance results for these ships. The second section discusses GAO-identified best practices for addressing risks inherent in shipbuilding and compares these practices to the Navy's approach for addressing risk. To identify common issues across the Navy's shipbuilding portfolio and challenges within specific programs, we examined our past findings and recommendations on Navy shipbuilding and acquisition best practices. We also updated analyses from prior work to include current data on funding, cost, schedule, and other shipbuilding metrics. We provided the report to Navy officials for review and incorporated their comments, as appropriate.

Contents:

Transmittal letter.

Ship classes.

Shipbuilding outcomes.

Shipbuilding risk.

Next steps.

Congressional committees.

Appendices.

Notes:

"A report to congressional committees."

"June 2018."

"GAO-18-238SP."

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource, PDF version; title from cover (GAO, viewed Nov. 29, 2019).

OCLC:

1042559879