Navy Shipbuilding Programs: Nuclear Attack Submarine Requirements
(Testimony, 03/16/95, GAO/T-NSIAD-95-120).

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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 REPORTNUM:  T-NSIAD-95-120
     TITLE:  Navy Shipbuilding Programs: Nuclear Attack Submarine 
             Requirements
      DATE:  03/16/95
   SUBJECT:  Nuclear armed submarines
             National defense operations
             Military budgets
             Nuclear weapons
             Shipbuilding industry
             Cost analysis
             Navy procurement
             Military vessels
             Military cost control
             Antisubmarine warfare
IDENTIFIER:  SSN-23 Submarine
             DOD Bottom-Up Review
             Groton (CT)
             Trident Submarine
             Seawolf Attack Submarine
             SSN-688 Submarine
             
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