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Military Ships and Naval Vessels

Testimony

Testimony

Aircraft Carrier Industrial Base

The purpose of this hearing was to receive testimony on the Department of the Navy's shipbuilding development and procurement programs as reflected in the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 1998 and the Future Years Defense Program.

Jan 1, 1997
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Strategic Futures: Evolving Missions for Traditional Strategic Delivery Vehicles

Addresses the post-Cold War use of traditional U.S. strategic nuclear forces (nuclear-armed long-range bombers, ICBMs, and submarine-launched ballistic missiles) from three perspectives: top-down, bottom-up, and policy.

Jan 1, 1995
Research Brief

Research Brief

Should Further U.S. Submarine Production Be Postponed?

Compares the practicality and cost of postponing submarine production restart still further with those of resuming production as soon as feasible.

Jan 1, 1994
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The U.S. Submarine Production Base: An Analysis of Cost, Schedule, and Risk for Selected Force Structures: Executive Summary

A summary of an analysis comparing two approaches to future submarine production: (1) allowing production to shut down as currently programmed submarines are finished, then restarting it when more are needed, and (2) continuing low-rate production.

Jan 1, 1994
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The U.S. Submarine Production Base: An Analysis of Cost, Schedule, and Risk for Selected Force Structures

Compares the practicality and cost of two approaches to future submarine production: allowing production to shut down as currently programmed submarines are finished, then restarting it when more are needed, or continuing low-rate production.

Jan 1, 1994
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U.S. and Canadian Cooperative Approaches to Arctic Security

Canada and the United States are paying more attention to underwater detection capabilities. In an era of extreme budget pressures, the two countries should examine options for working together to monitor subsurface activities.

Jan 1, 1990
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Sources of radioactivity in the ocean environment: from low-level waste to nuclear-powered submarines

This paper discusses both natural and man-made radioactivity in the marine environment. Radioactivity occurs naturally in both the sea water and in the ocean sediment. Radioactivity in the sea water is fairly uniform geographically and is dominated...

Jan 1, 1986
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Life Aboard a Soviet Destroyer and a Soviet Submarine

Presents two fictionalized accounts of life at sea — one aboard a Soviet destroyer, the other aboard a Soviet submarine — based on articles that appeared in the open literature on the Soviet navy between 1973 and 1982.

Jan 1, 1983
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Soviet navy data base: 1982-1983

Among the factors which influence naval power are Navy composition (the types of ships in the navy); fleet assignments (the basic location of ships); fleet organization (the groupings of ships used); ship availability (the number of ships in various ...

Jan 1, 1983
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Sea-Ice Conditions in the Norwegian, Barents, and White Seas

An investigation of the possible effects of climatic change on the military posture of the United States and the Soviet Union.

Aug 1, 1976
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A Methodology for Comparing the Range Performance of Chemically Fueled Submersibles

Presents a simple, general method for readily comparing the performances of chemically powered submersibles.

Jan 1, 1976
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The Economics of Naval Ship Automation: An Analysis of Proposed Automation of the DE-1052

Proposed automation of the DE-1052 class destroyer escort is analyzed as an investment problem.

Jan 1, 1975
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Fatal Submarine Accidents: A Bibliography, 1900-1965

This first complete bibliography of submarine accidents resulting in one or more deaths is a spinoff from a larger study of public reactions to disasters.

Jan 1, 1966
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Ship Weight Data Conversion from Maritime to Naval Classification.

Presentation of a method for converting ship construction weights from the Maritime Administration system to the Navy BuShips systems. The conversion system is devised to assemble and present, on a common basis, data from these different weight estim...

Jan 1, 1965
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Cost Sensitivity Analysis

A discussion of the techniques of cost sensitivity analysis, illustrated by a hypothetical investigation of a system designed to protect the United States against submarine-launched ballistic missiles.

Jan 1, 1965
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John Birkler

Senior Fellow
Education M.S. in physics, University of South Carolina; B.S. in physics, Roanoke College
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James Black

Senior Analyst
Education M.Sc./M.A. in international relations and international security, London School of Economics and Sciences Po Paris; B.A. (Hons) in history, University of Cambridge
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Michael Bohnert

Technical Analyst
Education B.S. in mechanical engineering, University of Notre Dame; M.E. in systems engineering, The Pennsylvania State University
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Aaron C. Davenport

Senior Policy Researcher, International/Defense/Homeland Security/Safety & Health
Education M.S. in environmental sciences, occupational health, industrial hygiene, minor - hazardous materials, University of California, Los Angeles Fielding School of Public Health
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Paul DeLuca

Director, Navy and Marine Forces Center; Senior Engineer
Education Ph.D. in engineering, Northwestern University; M.S. in engineering, Ohio State University; B.S. in physics, U.S. Naval Academy

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