This report documents the methods and findings of RAND research on the adequacy of the defense industrial base to support further construction of aircraft carriers and on the cost, schedule, and technology issues associated with building the next carrier, designated CVN 77.

The U.S. Aircraft Carrier Industrial Base: Force Structure, Cost, Schedule, and Technology Issues for CVN 77

Business & Money

Smith, Giles

Birkler, John

Mattock, Micheal

Schank, John

Timson, Fred

Industries

RAND Corporation

Responds to Senate's comcerns that further consolidation in the military-aircraft industry, which has dropped from 11 prime contractors in 1960 to the current three, dwill pose risks to innovation and cost through limited or no competition in contracting for military aircraft and related weapon systems for the Department of Denfense.

Competition and Innovation in the U.S. Fixed-Wing Military Aircraft Industry

History

Lee, Gordon

Drezner, Jeffrey A.

Bower, Anthony G.

Lorell, Mark

Military

Looks at the feasibility of UK shipbuilders expanding outside their domestic military contracts into the worldwide commercial or foregin military markets,

Differences Between Military and Commerical Shipbuilding: Implications for the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defense

Economics

Rand Publishing

Explores new and nontraditional ways that the United States might be able to employ aircraft carriers in pursuit of traditional and emerging military and homeland defense missions. Summarizes the insights of two Concept Options Groups (COGs)small groups of experienced military and civilian experts, defense analysts, and potential users who work together to identify promising ways to employ military might in nontraditional ways.

Leveraging America's Aircraft Carrier Capabilities: Exploring New Combat and Noncombat Roles and Missions for the U.S. Carrier Fleet

Engineering & Transportation

Lee, Gordon T.

Wilson, Peter A.

Gordon IV, John

Boraz, Steven

Engineering

Alkire et al. provide a clear understanding of the operational, logistics, and cost trade-offs between three interdependent elements of the Navy's Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program: the number of LCSs in the fleet, the number of mission packages that those LCSs would require in order to perform a range of missions, and the number and locations of LCS homeports and mission package installation sites.

Littoral Combat Ships: Relating Performance to Mission Package Inventories, Homeports, and Installation Sites

Alkire, Brien

Dryden, James

Dolan, Lisa

Mason, Bryce

The more accurately a cost index captures a shipbuilder1s risk, the less the Navy should have to pay its shipbuilders. The Navy uses such indexes to correct for significant cost risks outside its shipbuilders1 control. A longtime material-cost index in Navy shipbuilding is the steel-vessel index, but it is outdated and volatile. The authors urge the Navy to develop a modern-vessel index that more appropriately represents the materials used today.

Using the Steel-Vessel Material-Cost Index to Mitigate Shipbuilder Risk (Technical Report. (Rand Corporation), Tr-520-Navy)

MURPHY, ROBERT

Schank, John F.

Keating, Edward G.

Defense acquisition is one of the most urgent issues that the Department of Defense faces today. In an effort to provide the department and the nation with guidance on defense acquisition challenges, the authors present detailed proposals to improve defense acquisition through initiatives focused on competition, novel systems, risk management, organizational factors, prototyping, and the acquisition workforce.

From Marginal Adjustments to Meaningful Change: Rethinking Weapon System Acquisition (Rand Corporation Monograph)

Gates, Susan M.

Arena, Mark V.

Blickstein, Irv

Reviews a 2003 RAND evaluation of the risks and costs of the United States having little or no competition among companies involved with designing, developing, and producing fixed-wing military aircraft and related systems; examines changes in industrial-base structure and capabilities that have taken hold since that analysis was performed; and assesses how these and future changes will affect the industrial base.

Keeping a Competitive U.S. Military Aircraft Industry Aloft: Findings from an Analysis of the Industrial Base

Saha, Soumen

Tierney, Shane

Bracken Yale University

author of The Second Nuclear Age: Strategy Danger and th, Paul

Lorrell, Mark A.

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