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Appropriate Future Size and Structure of Navy in Light of Strategic and Budgetary Changes
Affordability of 30-Year Shipbuilding Plan
Estimated Ship Procurement Costs
Future Shipbuilding Funding Levels
Legislative Activity for FY2016
Appendix A. Comparing Past Ship Force Levels to Current or Potential Future Ship Force Levels
Appendix B. Independent Panel Assessment of 2010 QDR
Appendix C. U.S. Strategy and the Size and Structure of U.S. Naval Forces
Appendix D. Size of the Navy and Navy Shipbuilding Rate
Chapter 2: Preserving the Navy's Forward Presence with a Smaller Fleet
What Size Fleet Could the Navy Maintain With Smaller Shipbuilding Budgets?
How Could the Navy Maintain Its Forward Presence under Smaller Shipbuilding Budgets?
The Navy’s 2015 Shipbuilding Plan
Shipbuilding under Smaller Budgets
What Would Smaller Shipbuilding Budgets Buy?
What Would Be the Policy Implications of Smaller Budgets?
What Would Be the Implications for the Shipbuilding Industry?
Maintaining a Forward Presence
Increasing the Length and Frequency of Deployments
Basing More Ships Overseas
Analysis of Approaches to Maintaining a Forward Presence
Forward Presence under an Annual Shipbuilding Budget of $16 Billion
Forward Presence under an Annual Shipbuilding Budget of $14 Billion
Forward Presence under an Annual Shipbuilding Budget of $12 Billion
Appendix: Comparison of Different-Sized Fleets under Two Approaches to Maintaining Forward Presence
Chapter 3: An Analysis of the Navy’s Fiscal Year 2015 Shipbuilding Plan
The Navy Plans to Buy 264 Ships over the Next 30 Years
CBO Estimates the New-Ship Construction Costs in the Navy’s Plan At About $19 Billion per Year
CBO’s Estimate of Costs Over the Next 30 Years Is One-Third Higher Than What the Navy Has Spent Over the Past 30 Years
The Navy Would Probably Need to Purchase Substantially Fewer Ships to Comply with Caps on Defense Funding
Ship Purchases and Inventories under the 2015 Plan
Total Ship Purchases and Inventories
Combat Logistics and Support Ships
Shipbuilding Costs under the 2015 Plan
Costs of Meeting Nearly All Inventory Goals in Each Year
Shipbuilding Given Historical Average Funding
Shipbuilding under the Budget Control Act of 2011
Outlook for Specific Ship Programs
Appendix: Comparison of CBO’s and the Navy’s Cost Estimates for Individual Ship Programs
Chapter 4: Crew Rotation in the Navy: The Long-Term Effect on Forward Presence
Crew Rotation in the Navy Today
The Blue/Gold System for Ballistic Missile and Guided Missile Submarines
The Blue/Gold System for the U.S.S. Swift
Multicrewing on Coastal Patrol Ships
Dual Crewing and Multicrewing on Mine-Countermeasures Ships
The Navy’s Sea Swap Experiments with Destroyers
The Traditional Single-Crew Concept for Deploying Surface Combatants
Pacific Command’s Sea Swap Experiment with Spruance Class Destroyers
FFC’s Sea Swap Experiment with Arleigh Burke Class Destroyers
The Navy’s Conclusions About Sea Swap and Future Policy
CBO’s Analysis of the Potential Effects of Expanding Crew Rotation
Requirements for Forward Presence and Plans for Multiple Crewing under the Navy’s Long-Term Shipbuilding Plan
Effects of Widespread Crew Rotation under the Navy’s 313-Ship Plan
Effects of Widespread Crew Rotation with a Smaller Fleet
Cost Implications of Rotational Crewing