Can the Navy Sustain a 300-Ship Fleet?
CBO’s analysis of the Navy’s budgetary and procurement plans suggests that the service will have difficulty maintaining a fleet of 300 ships within its current annual funding of about $90 billion. That funding level is unlikely to cover all of the ships and aircraft the Navy will need to buy and also support readiness and a good quality of life for the service’s sailors, pilots, and marines. To sustain its 300-ship fleet, its inventory of aircraft, and the infrastructure that supports them, the Navy will need an annual budget of about $105 billion in today’s dollars–$17 billion more than it is expected to receive, on average, under the Administration’s Future Years Defense Program (FYDP) for fiscal years 2001 through 2005. The Navy plans to build 45 ships between 2000 and 2005, or seven and a half ships per year (see Summary Table 2). Those vessels include more of the current models of aircraft carriers and destroyers. They also include new designs, such as the DD-21 destroyer, the Vi
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