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Modernizing the U.S. aircraft carrier fleet : accelerating CVN 21 production versus mid-life refueling / John Schank [and others].
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Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2005.
Description
xxvi, 98 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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V874.3 .M64 2005
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Aircraft carriers
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United States
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Design and construction
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National Defense Research Institute (U.S.)
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Rand Corporation
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Schank, John F. (John Frederic), 1946-
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Summary note
As the Navy builds the last of its Nimitz-class carriers, it asked RAND to study the trade-offs involved in accelerating the production of its new CVN 21 carrier while hastening the retirement of some of the Nimitz fleet. What are the trade-offs involved in terms of cost, capability, and fleet size? RAND researchers looked at the Navy₂s existing plan and compared it with several alternatives and discovered that the Navy could modernize its fleet with the higher-performance, lower-cost CVN 21 at a cost premium no greater than 12 percent over its current plan. Allowing for the CVN 21₂s greater capability might permit the Navy to justify a smaller fleet size while it modernizes, and aggressive cost-cutting moves could reduce the cost premium significantly. The authors find no industrial base impediments to accelerating the program and conclude that the importance the Navy attaches to the increased fleet value premium should determine whether the increased cost is a good investment.
Notes
"MG-289."
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p.97-98).
Contents
Introduction
Fleet modernization options and their implications for fleet size and composition
Adequacy of the industrial base
Life-cycle cost analysis
Synthesis
Appendix. A. CVN 21 design and technology advances
B. Shipyard production labor demand by skill
C. How life-cycle cost elements were estimated.
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Modernizing the United States aircraft carrier fleet
Modernizing the US aircraft carrier fleet
ISBN
083303720X ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
9780833037206 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
2004028962
OCLC
57208776
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Modernizing the U.S. aircraft carrier fleet : accelerating CVN 21 production versus mid-life refueling / John Schank ... [et al.].
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Modernizing the U.S. aircraft carrier fleet : accelerating CVN 21 production versus mid-life refueling / John Schank ... [et al.].
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