The Navy's proposed FY2009 budget did not request funding for a 10th San Antonio (LPD-17) class amphibious ship and instead proposed ending LPD-17 procurement with the ninth ship, which was procured in FY2008. Procurement of a 10th LPD-17, however, was the Number 2 item on the Navy's FY2009 Unfunded Requirements List (URL) and the Number 1 item on the Marine Corps' FY2009 URL. The procurement cost of the 10th ship was estimated at about $1,700 million. As part of its action on the FY2009 budget, Congress decided to authorize and partially fund the procurement of a 10th LPD-17: The compromise version of the FY2009 defense appropriations act (H.R. 2638/P.L. 110-329 of September 30, 2008) provided $933.2 million in procurement funding for the ship. The remaining $770 million or so of the ship's procurement cost is expected to be included in the Navy's proposed FY2010 budget. On April 6, 2009, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates announced a number of decisions regarding the Department of Defense's (DOD's) proposed FY2010 defense budget. Among these was a decision to defer the procurement of an 11th LPD-17 (and of another sealift-type ship called the Mobile Landing Platform, or MLP) from FY2010 to FY2011 'in order to assess costs and analyze the amount of these capabilities the nation needs.'.


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    Title :

    Navy LPD-17 Amphibious Ship Procurement: Background, Issues, and Options for Congress. (Updated April 7, 2009)


    Contributors:
    R. O'Rourke (author)

    Publication date :

    2009


    Size :

    42 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English