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MARKET INSIGHT: U.S. NAVY

U.S. NAVY BY THE NUMBERS

Virginia Class Milestones

PCU North Dakota (SSN 784) -commissioned 2014

PCU John Warner (SSN 785) commissioned 2015

PCU Illinois (SSN 786) - keel laid Jun 2, 2014

Delivery Yard - General Dynamics Electric Boat

Contract Delivery Date - 31 August 2016

Estimated Delivery Date - Summer 2016

PCU Washington (SSN 787) - keel laid Nov 22, 2014

Delivery Yard - HII- Newport News

Contract Delivery Date - 28 February 2017

Est. Delivery Date -Fall 2016

PCU Colorado (SSN 788) - keel laid Mar 7, 2015

Delivery Yard - General Dynamics Electric Boat

Contract Delivery Date - 31 August 2017

Est. Delivery Date - Winter 2017 (2nd QTR FY17)

PCU Indiana (SSN 789) -keel laid May 16, 2015

Delivery Yard - HII - Newport News

Contract Delivery Date - 28 February 2018

Est. Delivery Date -Summer 2017

PCU South Dakota (SSN 790) -keel laid 4/4/2016

Delivery Yard -General Dynamics Electric Boat

U.S. Navy photo courtesy of the Royal Navy

Contract Delivery Date - 31 August 2018

The fast attack submarine USS Virginia (SSN 774), right, arrives at Her Majesty’s Naval Base, Clyde for a

Est. Delivery Date - Winter 2018 (2nd QTR FY18) scheduled port visit March 22, 2016. Virginia, lead boat of the Virginia-class submarines, is conducting naval ops in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations in support of U.S. national security interests in Europe.

PCU Delaware (SSN 791) -keel laid April 30, 2016

Delivery Yard -HII - Newport News

Contract Delivery Date - 28 February 2019

Est. Delivery Date - Fall 2018 ing capability. The Navy and its industry partners re- The success of the Aegis system for BMD missions duced the construction span by over two years from has resulted in the establishment of a land-based Aegis

PCU Vermont (SSN 792) – Keel Lay TBD an 86-month span down to 62 months. One design Ashore Missile Defense System in Romania, with a

Delivery Yard - General Dynamics Electric Boat

Contract Delivery Date - 30 June 2019 change focused on changing the 12 vertical-launch second planned for Poland, as part of the European missile tubes to two Virginia Payload Tubes (VPT) Phased Adaptive Approach to defend Europe from Ira-

PCU Oregon (SSN 793) – Keel Lay TBD with six missiles each in the bow of the ship. The nian missiles.

Delivery Yard - General Dynamics Electric Boat next step in the evolution of the Virginia class will be The ? rst Zumwalt class destroyers has conducted

Contract Delivery Date - 30 November 2019 the addition of the Virginia Payload Modules (VPM), sea trials, while the other two continue construction

PCU Montana (SSN 794) – Keel Lay TBD a 70-foot hull insertion that adds four 7-misssile VPT at General Dynamics Bath Iron Works. Although it’s

Delivery Yard – HII – Newport News Shipbuilding launchers to provide even more capability. called a destroyer, at nearly 16,000 tons it is much

Contract Delivery Date - 31 May 2020 larger with more robust offensive capability, than

Carriers other surface combatants. With a high degree of auto-

PCU Hyman G. Rickover (SSN 795) – Keel Lay TBD

The ? rst of the new CVN 78 class of nuclear pow- mation, it is manned with a crew of 142. By compari-

Delivery Yard - General Dynamics Electric Boat

Contract Delivery Date - 30 September 2020 ered aircraft carriers, USS Gerald Ford, is nearing son, a 9,500 ton Arleigh Burke class DDG has a crew completing. The crews are conducting “fast cruises” of about 300. The Zumwalts also have considerable

PCU New Jersey (SSN 796) – Keel Lay TBD to prepare for getting underway. Commissioning may power, weight and space margins for new weapons

Delivery Yard – HII – Newport News Shipbuilding take in September. Mabus says the Navy has “a steady like rail guns and lasers. The future USS Zumwalt

Contract Delivery Date - 28 February 2021 state Ford Class procurement plan designed to deliv- (DDG 1000) completed the at-sea portion of accep-

PCU Iowa (SSN 797) – Keel Lay TBD er each new ship in close alignment with the Nimitz tance trials, demonstrating her systems for the Navy’s

Delivery Yard – General Dynamics Electric Boat

Class ship it replaces. CVN 78 cost performance has Board of Inspection and Survey (INSURV) in April.

Contract Delivery Date 31 August 2021 remained stable since 2011 and this lead ship will de- While new DDGs are being built, the existing ? eet liver under the Congressional cost cap.” of cruisers and destroyers must be kept combat rel-

PCU Massachusetts (SSN 798) – Keel Lay TBD

The Ford class is based on the Nimitz class hull evant. The destroyer modernization program includes

Delivery Yard – HII – Newport News Shipbuilding

Contract Delivery Date – 28 February 2022 form, but has new propulsion and power distribution Hull, Mechanical, and Electrical (HM&E) upgrades as systems, sensors, electromagnetic catapults, and many well as combat systems improvements with upgrad-

PCU Idaho (SSN 799) – Keel Lay TBD other new features. ed AEGIS weapons systems. Advanced Capability

Delivery Yard – General Dynamics Electric Boat

Build (ACB) 12 to include open architecture comput-

Contract Delivery Date – 31 August 2022

Surface Combatants ing environment, BMD capability, installation of the

SSN 780 – Keel Lay TBD

The Navy continues to procure the Arleigh Burke- Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile (ESSM), integration of

Delivery Yard – HII – Newport News Shipbuilding class guided missile destroyer. The lead ship was the SM-6 missile, and improved air dominance with

Contract Delivery Date – 28 February 2023 commissioned in 1991, and the ships being procured processing upgrades and Naval Integrated Fire Con- today have upgraded to integrated air and missile de- trol-Counter Air capability.

PCU Utah (SSN 801) – Keel Lay TBD fense as well as ballistic missile defense (BMD) capa- This renovation reduces total ownership costs and

Delivery Yard – General Dynamics Electric Boat

Contract Delivery Date – 31 August 2023 bility. The newest version, called Flight III, will have expands mission capability for current and future the new Air and Missile Defense Radar. combat capabilities. 21 Cruiser modernization ensures 24 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News • JUNE 2016

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