Sustaining Us Nuclear Submarine Design Capabilities

Author : John Frederic Schank
Publisher : Rand Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0833041606
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sustaining U.S. Nuclear Submarine Design Capabilities written by John Frederic Schank and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2007 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time since the design of the first nuclear submarine, the U.S. Navy has no nuclear submarine design program under way, which raises the possibility that design capability could be lost. Such a loss could result in higher costs and delays when the next submarine design is undertaken, as well as risks to system performance and safety. The authors estimate and compare the costs and delays of letting design capability erode vs. those of alternative means of managing the workload and workforce over the gap in design demand and beyond. The authors recommend that the Navy consider stret.

Author : John Frederic Schank
Publisher : Rand Corporation
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sustaining U.S. Nuclear Submarine Design Capabilities written by John Frederic Schank and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2007 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. submarine eet currently numbers more than 50 fast attack submarines (SSNs) and 18 submarines built to launch ballistic missiles (SSBNs). All are nuclear powered to maximize the duration and speed of underwater operations. While the submarine eet has been decreasing in size since the end of the Cold War, it is anticipated that the U.S. Navy will sustain a force of several dozen boats into the foreseeable future. Submarines are almost continually being built to replace older ones that must be retired. As is the case with surface ships, submarines are built in classes sets of boats constructed to a common design. Designing a new class of nuclear submarines is a very large and complex endeavor, lasting 15 years or longer and requiring 15,000 to 20,000 man-years at the prime shipyard contractor alone.

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Total Pages : 47 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sustaining U.S. Nuclear Submarine Design Capabilities written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. submarine eet currently numbers more than 50 fast attack submarines (SSNs) and 18 submarines built to launch ballistic missiles (SSBNs). All are nuclear powered to maximize the duration and speed of underwater operations. While the submarine eet has been decreasing in size since the end of the Cold War, it is anticipated that the U.S. Navy will sustain a force of several dozen boats into the foreseeable future. Submarines are almost continually being built to replace older ones that must be retired. As is the case with surface ships, submarines are built in classes sets of boats constructed to a common design. Designing a new class of nuclear submarines is a very large and complex endeavor, lasting 15 years or longer and requiring 15,000 to 20,000 man-years at the prime shipyard contractor alone.

Author : John F. Schank
Publisher : Rand Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0833042769
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sustaining U.S. Nuclear Submarine Design Capabilities written by John F. Schank and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2007-06-14 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nuclear submarine design resources at the shipyards, their suppliers, and the Navy may erode for lack of demand. Analysis of alternative workforce and workload management options suggests that the U.S. Navy should stretch out the design of the next submarine class and start it early or sustain design resources above the current demand, so that the next class may be designed on time, on budget, and with low risk.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Projection Forces Subcommittee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nuclear Submarine Force--past, Present and Future written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Projection Forces Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hans Pung
Publisher : RAND Corporation
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sustaining Key Skills in the UK Naval Industry written by Hans Pung and published by RAND Corporation. This book was released on 2008 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "To preserve its ability to design, build, and support complex warships and submarines, the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) will need to preserve and sustain several key technical skills in the maritime domain, particularly those of designers and engineers at various stages of surface ship and submarine acquisition and support. Its current naval acquisition programme, comprising several classes of vessels (such as the Astute-class attack submarine and the Future Aircraft Carrier), has brought forward questions regarding the MOD's ability to design, build, and support the intended fleet size. Building on prior RAND research, this monograph explores in greater detail the need for and retention of specific technical skills in the UK's naval industrial base. It investigates the relationship between the demand created by the MOD's surface ship and submarine acquisition programme and the technical workforce needed to design, build, and support those war vessels. The results reveal that, although the MOD has taken into account the need for these skills, its future naval programme likely will have to be modified or augmented to sustain these technical skills in the long term. In particular, the MOD needs to nurture design and engineering skills to bridge current and future gaps as its naval acquisition programme moves forward."--Publisher's website.

Author : J. L. Birkler
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780833015488
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The U.S. Submarine Production Base written by J. L. Birkler and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 1994 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In January 1993, the RAND National Defense Research Institute was asked by the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition to compare the practicality and cost of two approaches to future submarine production: (1) allowing production to shut down as currently programmed submarines are finished, then restarting it when more are needed, and (2) continuing low-rate production.

Author : United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0P/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nuclear Submarines of Advanced Design written by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classified material has been deleted.

Author : Norman Polmar
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 159797319X
Total Pages : 649 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cold War Submarines written by Norman Polmar and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Submarines had a vital, if often unheralded, role in the superpower navies during the Cold War. Their crews carried out intelligence-collection operations, sought out and stood ready to destroy opposing submarines, and, from the early 1960s, threatened missile attacks on their adversary's homeland, providing in many respects the most survivable nuclear deterrent of the Cold War. For both East and West, the modern submarine originated in German U-boat designs obtained at the end of World War II. Although enjoying a similar technology base, by the 1990s the superpowers had created submarine fleets of radically different designs and capabilities. Written in collaboration with the former Soviet submarine design bureaus, Norman Polmar and K. J. Moore authoritatively demonstrate in this landmark study how differing submarine missions, antisubmarine priorities, levels of technical competence, and approaches to submarine design organizations and management caused the divergence.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2007 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: