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Navy Shipbuilding Programs: Nuclear Attack Submarine Requirements

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date March 16, 1995
Report No. T-NSIAD-95-120
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Summary:

There are less costly alternatives than the Navy's approach to maintain the required fleet of nuclear attack submarines. These alternatives would save billions of dollars and meet the Navy's force structure and threat requirements. In addition, the SSN-23 is not needed to satisfy force structure requirements or to counter a threat. Instead, the Defense Department's (DOD) justification for building the submarine is to preserve competition and to meet industrial base and national security needs. GAO believes that this is an inadequate justification for building the SSN-23 because currently no competition exists to build nuclear attack submarines and DOD has not made clear what it means by long-term industrial base and national security needs.

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