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LATEST CHANGES

U.S. NAVY SHIPBUILDING PROGRAM

Quarterly Update On U.S.

Navy Ship Procurement

February 1986

By James R. McCaul, President

International Maritime Associates, Inc.

Exhibit 1—Navy Shipbuilding and Conversion Five-Year Plan

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IMA provides continuing cover- age of the Navy ship procurement market. Each quarter several hundred subscribers receive in- depth, analytical reviews of devel- opment affecting Navy business op- portunities. This article is an ex- cerpt from IMA's February quarter- ly report.

FIVE-YEAR SHIPBUILDING

PLAN

Navy has proposed a program to build or convert 126 ships over the

FY 1987-1991 period. The plan is shown in Exhibit 1.

Navy Lowers

Construction Tempo

Budget pressures are affecting

Navy ship procurement plans. Few- er ships are proposed to be built or converted over the next five years than in recent plans. Navy last year proposed a five-year plan to build or convert 133 ships. The plan sub- mitted to Congress two years ago (FY 1985) proposed 142 ships.

New Construction

Trident Submarine (SSBN)

Attack Submarine (SSN-688)

New Design SSN (SSN-21)

Aegis Cruiser (CG-47)

Guided Missile Destroyer (DDG-51)

Mine Countermeasures Ship (MCM)

Coastal Minehunter (MSH-1)

Amphibious Landing Ship Dock (LSD-41CV)

Amphibious Assault Ship (LHD-1)

Ocean Surveillance Ship (TAGOS)

Fleet Oiler (TAO)

Repair Ship (ARS)

Ammunition Ship (AE)

Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC)

Fast Combat Support Ship (AOE)

Oceanographic Research Ship (AGX/AGOR)

Conversion/Acquisition

Amphibious SLEP

CV SLEP

Crane Ship (TACS)

Jumbo Oiler (AO)

Total (excluding LCAC's)

Source: Department of the Navy

FY 1987 FY 1988 FY 1989 FY 1990 FY 1991 2 1 24 1 2 1 28 2 1 25 2 25 24 12 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News