In executing its long-range shipbuilding plan, the U.S. Navy is facing financial challenges that require it to evaluate potential lower-cost options for its most-expensive platforms. We examine potential alternatives for replacing later Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers (CVNs) as they reach the end of their planned service lives in2030 and beyond. Some in Congress, among others, have criticized the Gerald R. Fordclass nuclear aircraft carriers (USS Gerald R. Ford [CVN 78], USS John F. Kennedy [CVN 79], and USS Enterprise [CVN 80]), which are now in construction or early long-lead procurement, for high acquisition cost, and the Navy has been directed to consider lower-cost alternatives. The study reported here was an effort to consider those alternatives by asking what platform options should be considered, how different platforms would perform in various operational environments, and the costs of alternative platforms. This report provides an unclassified summary of a longer, restricted-distribution companion report.
Future Aircraft Carrier Options
2017
112 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Marine Engineering , Military Operations, Strategy, & Tactics , Naval operations , Navy , Electromagnetic aircraft launch systems , Flight decks , Naval warfare , Carrier based aircraft , Aircraft carriers , Fighter aircraft , Test and evaluation , Short takeoff aircraft , Warfare , Aircraft equipment , Airframes , Uss abraham lincoln , Uss america , Uss theodore roosevelt , Air force , Csg(carrier strike group) , Cv ex(variant of current aircraft carriers) , Cv lx(variant of uss americaclass carrier) , Cvn(nuclear-powered aircraft carrier) , Cvw(carrier air wing) , Ff(forward funding) , Fy(fiscal year) , Navsea(naval sea systems command) , Por(program of record) , Rcoh(refueling complex overhaul)
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