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U.S. Navy (continued) restricted to homeport area ship- yards. The Navy generally restricts depot maintenance which can be completed within six months to shipyards in the homeport area.

Yards outside the homeport area are not invited to bid for the contract.

IMA's analysis indicates that the number of homeport restricted jobs requiring drydocking will fall 54 percent in the San Diego area. Short term scheduled drydockings in

Pearl Harbor will fall 50 percent.

However, in contrast, homeport restricted scheduled drydockings will grow 10 percent in Norfolk, 17 percent in Charleston and 20 per- cent in Mayport.

Ship Retirements

As a result of the ongoing DOD review of defense requirements, the

Navy active fleet will be substan- tially downsized over the next sev- eral years. According to recent re- ports, DOD plans to reduce the number of aircraft carriers from 14 to 12—and reduce the size of the

Navy deployable forces from 542 to 488 ships over the next five years.

Included in this reduction is the retirement of FF 1052 Class of fri- gates, 46 ships in all.

Exhibit 2 lists ship activations and retirements planned for FY 1990 and FY 1991. Additional re- tirements could take place in FY 1991 due to budget pressures. Par- ticularly noteworthy are the planned retirements of two relative-

Exhibit l

Scheduled Navy Ship Maintenance in FY 1990 and 1991 (as of July 1990)

FY 1990

Number of Short

Term Job Starts

Not Requiring

Number of Short

Term Job Starts

Requiring

Number of

Overhauls and Other Major

Ship Type Drydocking Drydocking Job Starts

EC WC EC WC EC WC

Carriers 1 2 1 2 2

Submarines 8 1 14 6 7 2

Cruisers 9 6 3 1 1 3

Destroyers 5 7 2 1 4 1

Frigates 12 18 7 8 1 1

Battleships 1 — — 1 — —

Amphibious ships 7 18 5 7 — —

Support ships 8 13 8 6 1 3

Minesweepers — — 4 5 — —

PHM — — 3 — — —

Other (incl. AVT) 1 4 3

Total 51 65 48 37 18 15

FY 1991

Number of Short Number of Short Number of

Term Job Starts Term Job Starts Overhauls

Not Requiring Requiring and Other Major

Ship Type Drydocking Drydocking Job Starts

EC WC EC WC EC WC

Carriers 2 4 2 — — 1

Submarines 7 — 6 5 1 2

Cruisers 5 8 — 3 2 2

Destroyers 2 5 2 2 3 1

Frigates 7 12 8 6 1 1

Battleships 1 1 — — —

Amphibious ships 6 14 12 2 1 1

Support ships 11 13 7 4 1

Minesweepers 3 3 5 3 —

PHM — — 1 — —

Other (incl. AVT) 3 2

Total 44 60 43 25 11 11

Source: IMA Associates ly modern attack submarines. The

Navy, in 1991, plans to retire the 24- year-old Queenfish and 21-year-old

Sea Devil. These submarines nor- mally have a 30-year operating life.

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FY 1990

Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72)

Normandy (CG 60)

Chancellorsville (CG 62)

Monterey (CG 61)

Comstock (LSD 45)

Tortuga (LSD 46)

Champion (MCM 4)

Guardian (MCM 5)

Devastator (MCM 6)

West Virginia (SSBN 736)

Albany (SSN 753)

Topeka (SSN 754)

Miami (SSN 775)

Bold (TAGOS 12)

Relentless (TAGOS 18)

John Ericsson (TAO 194)

Pecos (TAO 197)

FY 1990

Caloosahatchee (AO 98)

Canisteo (AO 99)

Coral Sea (CV 43)

Charles F. Adams (DDG 2)

John King (DDG 3)

Lawrence (DDG 4)

Claude V. Ricketts (DDG 5)

Henry B. Wilson (DDG 7)

Sellers (DDG 11)

Joseph Strauss (DDG 16)

Richard E. Byrd (DDG 23)

Farragut (DDG 37)

Coontz (DDG 40)

Dewey (DDG 45)

Spiegel Grove (LSD 32)

Alamo (LSD 33)

Hermitage (LSD 34)

Darter (SS 576)

Barbel (SS 580)

James Monroe (SSBN 622)

Henry Clay (SSBN 625)

Daniel Webster (SSBN 626)

Skipjack (SSN 585)

Sculpin (SSN 590)

Shark (SSN 591)

Plunger (SSN 595)

Barb (SSN 596)

Haddo (SSN 604)

Source: Department of the Navy

Exhibit 2

Planned Navy Ship Activations and

Retirements: FY 1990-91

Ship Additions

FY 1991

Supply (AOE 6)

Cowpens (CG 63)

Gettysburg (CG 64)

Chosin (CG 65)

Hue City (CG 65)

Arleigh Burke (DDG 51)

Rushmore (LSD 47)

Ashland (LSD 48)

Patriot (MCM 7)

Scout (MCM 8)

Kentucky (SSBN 737)

Scranton (SSN 756)

Alexandria (SSN 757)

Asheville (SSN 758)

Victorious (TAGOS 19)

Able (TAGOS 20)

Isherwood (TAO 191)

Kanawha (TAO 196)

Ship Deactivations

Jack (SSN 605)

Glenard P. Lipscomb (SSN 685)

Mispillion (TAO 105)

Waccamaw (TAO 109)

FY 1991

Iowa (BB 61)

New Jersey (BB 62)

Barney (DDG 6)

Towers (DDG 9)

Sampson (DDG 10)

Hoel (DDG 13)

Conyngham (DDG 17)

Semmes (DDG 18)

Tattnall (DDG 19)

Cochrane (DDG 21)

Luce (DDG 38)

King (DDG 41)

William V. Pratt (DDG 44)

Blueback (SS 581)

Permit (SSN 594)

Tinosa (SSN 606)

Guardfish (SSN 612)

Flasher (SSN 613)

Greenling (SSN 614)

Haddock (SSN 621)

Queenfish (SSN 651)

Sea Devil (SSN 664)

Passumpaic (TAO 107)

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