Crs Report for Congress - Navy CG(X) Cruiser Program: Background, Oversight Issues, and Options for Congress: September 20, 2007 - Rl34179 (Paperback)


The Navy is currently developing technologies and studying design options for a planned new cruiser called the CG(X). Navy plans call for procuring the first CG(X) in FY2011, at an estimated cost of about $3.2 billion, and 18 more CG(X)s in subsequent years. If the CG(X) is equipped with a nuclear power plant, which is an option currently being considered by the Navy, then advance procurement funding for the first CG(X) could appear in the FY2009 Navy budget to be submitted to Congress in early 2008. The Navy requested $118 million in FY2008 research and development funding for the CG(X) program. The Navy is pursuing the CG(X) program in a context that includes concerns about the affordability of the Navy's shipbuilding program, the emergence of the Navy's new ballistic missile defense (BMD) mission, interest on the House Armed Services Committee in having the CG(X) be nuclear-powered, and concerns for the surface combatant industrial base. The 19 planned CG(X)s are intended to replace the Navy's 22 existing Ticonderoga (CG-47) class Aegis cruisers. The Navy wants the CG(X) to be a highly capable multi-mission ship with an emphasis on air defense and ballistic missile defense (BMD). The Navy is currently assessing CG(X) ...

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The Navy is currently developing technologies and studying design options for a planned new cruiser called the CG(X). Navy plans call for procuring the first CG(X) in FY2011, at an estimated cost of about $3.2 billion, and 18 more CG(X)s in subsequent years. If the CG(X) is equipped with a nuclear power plant, which is an option currently being considered by the Navy, then advance procurement funding for the first CG(X) could appear in the FY2009 Navy budget to be submitted to Congress in early 2008. The Navy requested $118 million in FY2008 research and development funding for the CG(X) program. The Navy is pursuing the CG(X) program in a context that includes concerns about the affordability of the Navy's shipbuilding program, the emergence of the Navy's new ballistic missile defense (BMD) mission, interest on the House Armed Services Committee in having the CG(X) be nuclear-powered, and concerns for the surface combatant industrial base. The 19 planned CG(X)s are intended to replace the Navy's 22 existing Ticonderoga (CG-47) class Aegis cruisers. The Navy wants the CG(X) to be a highly capable multi-mission ship with an emphasis on air defense and ballistic missile defense (BMD). The Navy is currently assessing CG(X) ...

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Bibliogov

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United States

Release date

November 2013

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November 2013

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246 x 189 x 2mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

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30

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978-1-293-25040-2

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9781293250402

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1-293-25040-6



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