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CBO: Navy’s 2025 shipbuilding plan would cost $40BN a year

The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has released its analysis of the U.S. Navy’s 2025 30-year shipbuilding plan. As in its previous analyses of Navy shipbuilding plans, the CBO finds that the cost of the plan would be higher than Navy estimates.

Here are some highlights from the report:.

Cost. The Navy’s 2025 plan would cost 46 percent more annually in real terms (that is, adjusted to remove the effects of inflation) than the average amount appropriated over the past 5 years. CBO...

https://www.marinelog.com/news/cbo-navys-2025-shipbuilding-plan-would-cost-40bn-a-year/

FPSO gets two new Liebherr offshore cranes

Out with the old, in with the new. The Compact Board Offshore (CBO) cranes with their distinctive A-frame design have reached the end of their useful life after almost two decades in continuous operation.

Rostock, Germany-based Liebherr was able to offer a solution with the BOS series 2600 models. The BOS 2600 cranes will replace two well served Liebherr Compact Board Offshore (CBO) cranes that have been in service since 2006 and will contribute to safety and reliability on the Floating...

https://www.marinelog.com/technology/fpso-with-two-new-liebherr-offshore-cranes/

CBO: New LSM medium landing ships would cost two to three times more than Navy estimates

Back in January, Naval Sea Systems Command issued the Navy’s initial Request For Proposals (RFP) for the detail design and construction (DD&C) of six landing ship medium (LSM) ships. Now it appears those ships could cost way more than the Navy estimates. In response to a request from the Senate Armed Services Committee, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has prepared a report on the planned LSM program. Previously called the light amphibious warship (LAW), the new ship is expected to...

https://www.marinelog.com/news/cbo-new-lsm-medium-landing-ships-would-cost-two-to-three-times-more-than-navy-estimates/

New CBO report takes a hard look at Navy shipbuilding plans

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has released its latest analysis of U.S. Navy shipbuilding plan costs. Not for the first time, the CBO report finds costs would be higher than the Navy estimates and that the average annual appropriation required would be substantially higher than the average over the past five years.

As we’ve noted oftentimes, the Navy is the U.S. shipbuilding industry’s largest customer, so we can expect the CBO report to provide industry leaders with some less than light...

https://www.marinelog.com/news/new-cbo-report-takes-a-hard-look-at-navy-shipbuilding-plans/

Top Stories 2022: U.S. Navy Acquisition

The future USS Oregon (SSN-788) pierside at General Dynamics Electric Boat on Feb. 28, 2022. USNI News Photo

This post is part of a series looking back at the top naval stories from 2022.

This year saw the U.S. Navy moving down an acquisition path with more certainty than in 2021.

With the Biden administration embarking on its second budget cycle, the U.S. Navy released its first long-range shipbuilding plan in several years, providing more clarity to the industrial base on where the service is...

Wärtsilä lines up first fleet decarbonisation deal for oil & gas segment in Latin America

Wärtsilä has inked “a pioneering agreement” for decarbonisation projects in the oil and gas segment in the Americas with Brazil’s Grupo CBO.

The post Wärtsilä lines up first fleet decarbonisation deal for oil & gas segment in Latin America appeared first on Offshore Energy.

https://www.offshore-energy.biz/wartsila-lines-up-first-fleet-decarbonisation-deal-for-oil-gas-segment-in-latin-america/

Congressional Budget Office Primer on U.S. Military’s Force Structure

The following is the May 2021 Congressional Budget Office report, The U.S. Military’s Force Structure: A Primer, 2021 Update

From the report

To increase understanding of the choices that the nation faces when considering the defense budget, the Congressional Budget Office has updated its 2016 primer on the structure of the armed forces. This updated version is based on the spending plans and personnel numbers outlined in the Department of Defense’s (DoD’s) Future Years Defense Program for fiscal...

https://news.usni.org/2021/05/21/congressional-budget-office-primer-on-u-s-militarys-force-structure

CBO Report on Nuclear Submarine Maintenance

The following is the March 24, 2021 Congressional Budget Office report, The Capacity of the Navy’s Shipyards to Maintain Its Submarines.

From the report

The U.S. Navy’s 70 submarines represent nearly one-quarter of its total fleet. Like all naval ships, those submarines require several periods of intensive maintenance during their service life. Navy policy dictates that most maintenance on nuclear-powered ships (all U.S. submarines are nuclear-powered) be performed by the four shipyards it owns...

https://news.usni.org/2021/03/26/cbo-report-on-nuclear-submarine-maintenance

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