The Navy has a requirement for a battle force surface combatant as a replacement for retiring battle force guided missile destroyers. To satisfy that requirement, the Navy established the DDG-51 Aegis Destroyer program in June 1981. The DDG-51 Destroyer will be able to perform simultaneous antiair, antistrike, antisurface, and antisubmarine missions. In addition, these Destroyers are expected to operate as units of carrier battle groups and surface action groups and in support of underway replenishment groups and amphibious task forces in multithreat environments. The DDG-51 Destroyer will be armed with the Aegis Weapon System, which provides antiair warfare capability on cruisers and destroyers acquired under the Aegis shipbuilding program. The Navy plans to acquire 49 DDG-51 Destroyers at an estimated cost of $46 billion (FY 1992 through FY 1999 dollars). Of the 49 Destroyers, 46 are to be acquired by competitive dual sourcing with competitive awards of 17 ships to the 2 contractors as of May 1991. The original program supported a 600-ship Navy. However, a total procurement objective of 62 DDG Class Destroyers and annual buys of 5 or more ships were subsequently determined to be unaffordable during the Major Warship Review conducted in FY 1990. This change in quantities and annual buys impacted the viability of a competitive dual source acquisition strategy. This strategy was originally designed to meet surge and mobilization production response requirements by qualifying Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine, and Ingalls Shipbuilding, Incorporated, in Pascagoula, Mississippi, to produce, maintain, and repair DDG-51 Destroyers.
Navy Dual Source Program for the DDG-51 Aegis Destroyer
1992
68 pages
Report
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English
Military Operations, Strategy, & Tactics , Management Practice , Missile Technology , Guided missiles , Battle group level organizations , Auditing , Destroyers , Military forces(United states) , Mobilization , Task forces , Amphibious operations , Aircraft carriers , Naval planning , Battles , Naval vessels(Combatant) , Antiaircraft defense systems , Shipbuilding , Antisubmarine warfare , Cruisers , Mississippi , Y2k compliance , Aq i00-09-2792 , Year 2000 compliance , Ddg-51 vessel