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The U.S. submarine production base : an analysis of cost, schedule, and risk for selected force structures

Title: The U.S. submarine production base : an analysis of cost, schedule, and risk for selected force structures / John Birkler [and others].
Publication: Santa Monica, CA : Rand, 1994.

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Description

xxvii, 203 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.

Summary

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.

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Rand library collection

Uniform Title

Rand library collection.

Alternative Title

US submarine production base.
United States submarine production base.

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Note

"MR-456-OSD."
"Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense."

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

U.S. Submarine Production to Date -- Events in the Life of a Submarine -- Design -- Construction -- Maintenance -- Deactivation -- The Submarine Industrial Base -- Effects of a Production Gap on Shipyards -- Methodology -- Analysis Assumptions -- Data for Cost Estimates -- Modeling Workforce Buildup and Postrestart Production -- An Illustrative Case: Baseline Estimates for Electric Boat -- Sizing the Residual Cadre -- Impact on Submarines Currently in Construction -- Costs of Smart Shutdown -- Annual Cost of Maintaining Production Capabilities -- Costs and Schedule of Reconstitution -- Effects of a Production Gap on Nuclear-Component Vendors -- Naval Nuclear-Propulsion Industrial Base -- Lead Times with an Active Industrial Base -- Shutting Down and Reconstituting the Reactor Core Vendor -- One-Year Shutdown -- Five-year Shutdown -- Shutting Down and Reconstituting the Rest of the Nuclear Vendor Base -- Risks Associated with Gaps in Nuclear Component Production -- Estimation Risk -- Accident Risk -- Effects of a Production Gap on Nonnuclear-Component Vendors -- Why Is This an Important Issue? -- Scope of the Problem -- Possible Actions to Ensure Future Product Availability -- Preserving Existing Production Lines -- Reconstituting a Source of Supply in the Future -- Combining Shutdown, Maintenance, and Restart Costs -- Alternative Fleet Replacement Strategies -- Modeling Fleet Replacement -- Defining and Screening the Alternatives -- Narrowing the Range of Production Rates Considered -- Choosing One of the Two Decommissioning Strategies -- Narrowing the Range of Fleet Sizes Considered -- Checking the Feasibility of Production Gaps -- Comparing the Cost of Alternative Strategies -- Sustaining a Fleet Size of 40 Ships at Two Produced per Year -- Differences in Discounted Costs -- Differences in Undiscounted Costs -- Identifying the Sources of the Cost Differences -- Minimum vs. Maximum Gap: the 30-Year-Life Cases -- Minimum vs. Maximum Gap: the 35-Year-Life Cases -- 30-Year Ship Life vs. 35-Year Life: the Minimum-Gap Cases -- 30-Year Life vs. 35-Year Life: the Maximum-Gap Cases -- Sensitivity to Production Rate and Fleet Size -- Sustaining a Fleet Size of 40 Ships at Three Ships Produced per Year -- Sustaining a Fleet Size of 50 Ships at Three Ships Produced per Year -- Sustaining a Fleet of 30 Ships at Two Ships Produced per Year -- Risk -- Program Risk -- Accident Risk -- Long-Term Risk -- On the Practicality of an Extended Gap -- On the Cost-Effectiveness of an Extended Gap -- On the Risks of an Extended Gap -- Recommendations -- Design Considerations -- Supplementary Background Information -- Shipyard Effects: Additional Cases -- British Production Restart Experience -- French Production Experience -- Workforce Reconstitution Model and Generic Results -- Operating and Support Costs -- Comparing Costs: Additional Cases.

ISBN

0833015486
9780833015488

LCCN

94028415

OCLC

ocm30735406
30735406
SCSB-2027948

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Princeton University Library