United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office National Security and International Affairs Division author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 1995-03-16 monographic deposited born digital GA 1.13:T-NSIAD-95-120 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-T-NSIAD-95-120 P0b002ee1803982f8 f:tns95120 DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-23 GAOREPORTS-T-NSIAD-95-120 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-T-NSIAD-95-120 T-NSIAD-95-120 Nuclear armed submarines National defense operations Military budgets Nuclear weapons Shipbuilding industry Cost analysis Navy procurement Military vessels Military cost control Antisubmarine warfare SSN-23 Submarine DOD Bottom-Up Review Groton (CT) Trident Submarine Seawolf Attack Submarine SSN-688 Submarine Testimony NSIAD 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. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-T-NSIAD-95-120/html/GAOREPORTS-T-NSIAD-95-120.htm GAO/T-NSIAD-95-120 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-T-NSIAD-95-120 Testimony GAO/T-NSIAD-95-120; Navy Shipbuilding Programs: Nuclear Attack Submarine Requirements; Nuclear armed submarines National defense operations Military budgets Nuclear weapons Shipbuilding industry Cost analysis Navy procurement Military vessels Military cost control Antisubmarine warfare SSN-23 Submarine DOD Bottom-Up Review Groton (CT) Trident Submarine Seawolf Attack Submarine SSN-688 Submarine