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- Cost Estimate
Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on November 30, 2011
- Cost Estimate
Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on October 12, 2011
- Cost Estimate
Cost estimate for the bill as reported by the Senate Committee on Armed Services on November 15, 2011
- Report
Between 2012 and 2041, the Navy will: purchase 20 amphibious ships at a cost of about $50 billion; retire 22 amphibious ships; and meet or exceed the 33-ship goal between 2017 and 2031 but fall below the goal the rest of the time.
- Blog Post
The U.S. Navy’s fleet numbers 284 ships, including 29 amphibious warfare ships that are designed primarily to carry marines and their equipment into combat but also to perform peacetime missions. Today CBO released a report—requested in the report of the Senate Armed Services Committee on the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011—reviewing the size, missions, and use of the Navy’s amphibious warfare ships and related expeditionary forces under the Navy’s 2012 shipbuilding plan.
- Cost Estimate
Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on July 21, 2011
- Blog Post
During the past decade’s operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, the U.S. military has come to rely heavily on the continuous presence overhead of both manned and unmanned aircraft. Unmanned aircraft are particularly attractive for such missions because they can be designed to remain in the air beyond the physical endurance of human air crews and because they do not put people at risk during operations in potentially hostile airspace.
- Report
CBO examines the potential capabilities of airships for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance and airlift missions.
- Report
Analysis by CBO indicates that an alternative approach would be less expensive than DoD's plan for upgrading its constellation of GPS satellites.
- Blog Post
The U.S. military has come to rely on the Global Positioning System (GPS) to conduct many of its operations. The Department of Defense (DoD) is modernizing the system—in part to better counter deliberate interference—by purchasing new satellites and upgrading the systems that control the satellites.