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CURRENT NAVY & COAST GUARD VESSELS

UNDER CONTRACT AT U.S. YARDS (continued)

SHIPYARD

Navy Designation

Tacoma Boatbuilding

T-AGOS-11 & 12 . . .

Textron Marine

Todd Pacific-San Pedro

FFG-61

NAME

APPROX.

CONTRACT $

EST.

DELIVERY unnamed 18,590,001 10/89 unnamed unnamed unnamed unnamed

Cardinal 51,000,000 187,000,000 38,625,343 186,936,237 28,300,000

NA

NA 11/88 89-6/91 88

Ingraham 96,100,000 11/88 lion for ship maintenance and repair in FY 1988. This is about $600 mil- lion under Navy's request. It is also significantly lower than actual spending on ship repair and mainte- nance in FY 1987. Details for the FY 1988 program are shown in Exhibit 5.

Depot Maintenance

The appropriations conferees agreed to cut $285 from requested depot maintenance of ships in FY 1988. Among the actions were cut- ting "unncessary voyage repairs" by $21.7 million and reducing planned inactive ship upgrades by $18.0 mil- lion.

FF-1052 Upgrades

Congress has directed Navy to review initiating a program to mod- ernize Knox class frigates. There are 46 ships in this class—delivered be- tween 1969-1974. More than half were built by Avondale. The prima- ry objective of the proposed mod- ernization would be to upgrade the

ASW sensor and weapons suite.

New Threat Upgrade

The appropriations bill requires one FY 1988 NTU overhaul to be performed in the Philadelphia Navy

Shipyard. Remaining NTU over- continued)

Navy Update (continued) provided by Congress in FY 1988 to procure seasheds and adapters.

Navy had asked for $52 million for this program. Congress appro- priated $64 million.

RESEARCH &

DEVELOPMENT

Congress has provided funds to- talling $9.5 billion in FY 1988 for

Navy research and development programs. Details are shown in Ex- hibit 4.

Revolutionary Ship Designs

Navy has established a high level effort to develop revolutionary de- sign concepts for future combatant ships. The Congress authorized $5 million for continued development efforts in FY 1988—stating the re- search should involve cooperative efforts of Navy, industry and aca- demia.

Advanced Submarine

Development

The Defense Advanced Research

Projects Agency (DARPA) was giv- en $113 million in FY 1988 for advanced submarine research and development. These funds are to be used to look beyond the SSN 21 attack submarine now in final de- sign. The goal is to identify design options not now feasible by incorpo-

Twelve years ago, IMA was asked by Navy to perform a major study of its procedures for managing na- val ship procurement. This was fol- lowed by an assessment of proce- dures used to manage the naval ship modernization program. Since then IMA has performed consult- ing assignments for over 100 com- mercial clients in 20 countries— establishing a leading internation- al position in marine and naval market research.

In 1981 IMA began publishing a series of special reports on naval business opportunities. These re- ports now reach over 400 subscrib- ers. They include equipment manu- facturers, shipyards, technology firms, electronics suppliers, etc.

This article draws from several recent reports and provides an in- dication of the type coverage pro- vided to subscribers. For further information contact International

Maritime Associates, 835 New

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DC 20037; Telephone (202) 333- 8501; Fax 202 333-8504; Telex 64325 IMA rating technologies such as bound- ary layer control, advanced materi- al, automated control systems, high temperature superconductors and quiet propulsors. Underlying this program are doubts about the abili- ty of the SSN 21 to satisfy long term attack submarine mission require- ments.

SHIP REPAIR &

MAINTENANCE

The Navy plans to spend $4.4 bil-

Exhibit 5—FY 1988 Program for Navy Ship Maintenance ($ in millions)

Ship overhauls

Restricted availabilities

Modernization

Intermediate maintenance

Technical support

Outfitting

Inactivations

Total Budget

Budget Request 1,365 1,410 1,291 331 153 347 87

Appropriations $4,149 153 34 62 $4,984

Source: Defense Authorization and Appropriations Bills $4,398

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