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totalt 33 träffar
Sustaining U.S. Nuclear Submarine Design Capabilities
Nuclear submarine design resources at the shipyards, their suppliers, and the Navy may erode for lack of demand. Analysis of alternative workforce and workload management options …
Australia's Naval Shipbuilding Enterprise
To prepare for its next Defence White Paper, Australia is examining an enterprise-level naval shipbuilding plan. To support this effort, RAND researchers explore the feasibility of …
Impacts of the Fleet Response Plan on Surface Combatant Maintenance
To achieve a more responsive and more readily deployable fleet of surface combatants, the Navy adopted the Fleet Response Plan (FRP) in 2003 to replace its traditional two-year …
Consolidating Active and Reserve Component Training Infrastructure
Using the Steel-vessel Material-cost Index to Mitigate Shipbuilder Risk
The more accurately a cost index captures a shipbuilder's risk, the less the Navy should have to pay its shipbuilders. The Navy uses such indexes to correct for significant cost …
Learning from Experience
This volume presents a set of lessons learned from Australia's Collins submarine program that could help inform future program managers. Collins was the first submarine built in …
The U.S. Coast Guard's Deepwater Force Modernization Plan
Explores acceleration of the pace at which the U.S. Coast Guard can acquire surface and air assets that it will operate in the deepwater environment (50 or more nautical miles from …
Acquisition and Competition Strategy Options for the DD(X)
RAND was assigned to assess alternative acquisition strategies for the Navy's new family of destroyers. The authors drew on the history of competition in acquisition programs to …
Designing Adaptable Ships
This report explores the U.S. Navy s options for extending the service lives of operational ships by adopting the concepts of modularity and flexibility in ship design. These …
The United Kingdom's Nuclear Submarine Industrial Base
Cost increases in maintaining regulating licenses at BAE Systems' Barrow-in-Furness shipyard and Devonport Management Limited's (DML's) facility have led the UK Ministry of Defence …
Controlling the Cost of C4I Upgrades on Naval Ships
C4I systems have evolved rapidly over the last few decades, and the cost of keeping these products up-to-date on new and in-service U.S. Navy ships is high due to configuration, …
