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U.S. Navy shipbuilding : plans, congressional concerns, and quality issues

This book provides background information and presents potential issues for Congress concerning the Navy's ship force-structure goals and shipbuilding plans. It also discusses, among other issues, quality problems in constructing recently delivered ships and Navy actions to improve quality and key practices employed by leading commercial ship buyers and shipbuilders to ensure quality and how these compared with Navy practices.

Online EBSCO Academic Comprehensive Collection

The Navy's surface combatant programs : testimony, statement of Eric J. Labs, senior analyst, before the Subcommittee on Seapower and Expeditionary Forces, Committee on Armed Services, U.S. House of Representatives

Online purl.fdlp.gov

The role of experimentation in building future naval forces

The Department of Defense is in the process of transforming the nationa (TM)s armed forces to meet the military challenges of the 21st century. Currently, the opportunity exists to carry out experiments at individual and joint service levels to facilitate this transformation. Experimentation, which involves a spectrum of activities including analyses, war games, modeling and simulation, small focused experiments, and large field events among other things, provides the means to enhance naval and joint force development. To assist the Navy in this effort, the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) asked the National Research Council (NRC) to conduct a study to examine the role of experimentation in building future naval forces to operate in the joint environment. The NRC formed the Committee for the Role of Experimentation in Building Future Naval Forces to perform the study.