The Navy has been procuring Virginia (SSN-774) class nuclear-powered attack submarines (SSNs) at a rate of one per year for the past several years. The procurement rate is scheduled to increase to two boats per year starting in FY2011. A total of 11 boats have been procured through FY2009. The eight Virginia-class submarines to be procured in the 5-year period FY2009-FY2013 (boats 11 through 18) are being procured under a multiyear procurement (MYP) arrangement. The Navy's proposed FY2010 budget requests $1,964.3 million in procurement funding to complete the procurement cost of a 12th Virginia-class boat. The FY2010 budget estimates the procurement cost of this boat at $2,756.7 million, and the ship has received a total of $792.4 million in prior-year funding. The Navy's proposed FY2010 budget also requests $1,346.4 million in advance procurement (AP) funding for Virginia-class boats to be procured in future years, and $613.3 million in additional AP funding for Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) purchases of long-leadtime items for Virginia-class boats to be procured under the FY2009-FY2013 MYP arrangement. The House and Senate Armed Services Committee, in their markups of the FY2010 defense authorization bill (H.R. 2647/S. 1390), both recommended approving the administration's FY2010 request for procurement and advance procurement funding for the Virginia-class submarine program.
Navy Attack Submarine Procurement: Background and Issues for Congress. Updated July 17, 2009
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Logistics Military Facilities & Supplies , Marine Engineering , Nuclear powered submarines , Naval procurement , Costs , Attack submarines , Military force levels , Naval budgets , Shipbuilding , Legislation , Shortages , Production rate , Naval architecture , History , Missions , Cost reduction , Congress , Quantity , Ssn-774 class vessels , Procurement rate , Procurement costs , Gd/eb(General dynamics electric boat division) , Ngsb(Northrop grumman shipbuilding) , Ngnn(Northrop grumman's newport news shipbuilding) , Funding alternatives , Policy options , Virginia-class submarines , Ssn(Nuclear-powered attack submarines) , Joint production , Multiyear procurement