The Navy's plans to incorporate lessons learned from prior submarine programs, particularly the Seawolf SSN-21 program into the design and construction of the NSSN, a new class of nuclear-powered attack submarine were assessed. Several factors make the NSSN both an excellent opportunity and a challenge for the Navy to control acquisition costs and to improve the quality of the design and construction process. These factors are (1) a reduced antisubmarine warfare threat; (2) the U.S. defense budget, which has been more tightly constrained each year; and (3) the early stages of the NSSN acquisition cycle, which allow an agency to apply lessons of past programs to future programs. The NSSN's missions include battlegroup support, covert strike warfare, covert intelligence, special warfare, covert mine warfare, antisubmarine warfare, and antisurface warfare operating in both open ocean and littoral (coastal) areas.
Navy Ships: Lessons of Prior Programs May Reduce New Attack Submarine Cost Increases and Delays
1994
19 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Computers, Control & Information Theory , Nuclear powered submarines , Attack submarines , Naval procurement , Cost analysis , Cost effectiveness , Naval research , Naval warfare , Design criteria , Systems engineering , Naval budgets , Research ships , Mission profiles , Covert operations , Naval intelligence , Electronic intelligence , Electronic reconnaissance , Communications intelligence , Interception , Naval mine warfare , Antisubmarine warfare , Antiship warfare , Naval operations , Littoral zones , Oceans , Logistics management , SSN-21 Vessels , Seawolf submarines , NSSN Vesses , Battlegroup support , Covert strike warfare , Special operations
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