Crs Report for Congress - Navy Ddg-1000 Destroyer Program: Background, Oversight Issues, and Options for Congress: May 1, 2008 - Rl32109 (Paperback)

The Navy is procuring a new kind of destroyer called the DDG-1000. The ship was earlier called the DD(X). Navy plans call for procuring a total of seven DDG1000s. The first two were procured in FY2007 using split funding (i.e., incremental funding) in FY2007 and FY2008. The Navy estimates their combined procurement cost at $6,325 million. This figure includes about $2.0 billion detailed design/nonrecurring engineering (DD/NRE) costs for the entire DDG-1000 class. The Navy wants to procure the third DDG-1000 in FY2009; the Navy estimates its procurement cost at $2,653 million. The ship received $150 million in advance procurement funding in FY2008, and the Navy's proposed FY2009 budget requests the remaining $2,503 million. The Navy's proposed FY2009 budget also requests $51 million in advance procurement funding for the fourth DDG-1000, which the Navy wants to procure in FY2010. At a February 27, 2008, hearing on Navy shipbuilding programs before the Defense subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee, the chairman of the subcommittee, Representative John Murtha, stated that the subcommittee is considering deferring procurement of the third DDG-1000 and using the funding programmed for that ship to instead procure three other ships for the Navy in FY2009 -- a San Antonio ...