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...
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/
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 has inked “a pioneering agreement” for decarbonisation projects in the oil and gas segment in the Americas with Brazil’s Grupo CBO.
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Brazil’s CBO closed the acquisition of compatriot rival Finarge, acquiring five AHTS vessels in the transaction. The post Brazil’s CBO buys rival player Finarge in $94 million deal appeared…
https://www.offshore-energy.biz/brazils-cbo-buys-rival-player-finarge-in-94-million-deal/
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
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
Brazil’s offshore support vessel operator CBO has signed an agreement with the technology group […] The post CBO Flamengo to get Wärtsilä’s hybrid propulsion appeared first on…
https://www.offshore-energy.biz/cbo-flamengo-to-get-wartsilas-hybrid-propulsion/
The following is the Congressional Budget Office report, An Analysis of the Navy’s Fiscal Year 2020 Shipbuilding Plan.
From the report
The Department of Defense (DoD) submitted the Navy’s 2020 shipbuilding plan to the Congress in March 2019. The average annual cost of carrying out that plan, which covers fiscal years 2020 to 2049, would be $31.0 billion in 2019 dollars, the Congressional Budget Office estimates. The Navy’s 2020 plan differs very little from its 2019 plan in its goal for the...
https://news.usni.org/2019/10/09/cbo-analysis-of-u-s-navy-fy-2020-shipbuilding-plan
The following is the April 22, 2019 Congressional Budget Office report, Costs of Submarine Maintenance at Public and Private Shipyards.
From the report
Public shipyards conduct a large majority of all submarine maintenance. Those shipyards are Navy-owned and -operated, but the Navy has been experiencing long delays—sometimes as much as several years—to obtain maintenance on its submarines at those shipyards. As a result, some submarines have missed deployments or had shortened deployments. The...
https://news.usni.org/2019/04/23/cbo-report-on-navy-submarine-maintenance-costs