Ships

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
Report
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
Report
Dual-Use Technology Program for a Passenger-Cargo Rotorcraft
Declining budgets are reducing the number of new military acquisition starts. The Army needs to consider new ways of doing business that will permit it to get the most from the acquisition dollars available.
Jan 1, 1995
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
Report
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
Report
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
Report
Alternative Concepts for Managing the Distribution of Resupply Cargo
Offers several alternatives for improving the management of resupply operations in Department of Defense (DOD)'s future distribution system, along with a framework for evaluating them.
Jan 1, 1991
Report
Fast Sealift and Maritime Prepositioning Options for Improving Sealift Capabilities
Considers (1) the extent to which future U.S. flag merchant ships and existing government and sealift programs can support potential future force deployments and (2) the kinds of ships that should be built if additional sealift capabilities are required.
Jan 1, 1991
Report
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
Report
Rethinking the 600-Ship Navy in Light of Gramm-Rudman
Discusses a crucial policy question facing the United States — whether the proposed Navy buildup from a fleet of 500 to one of 600 ships makes good sense, or whether budget resources would be better spent in other ways.
Jan 1, 1986
Report
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
Report
A Chronology of Terrorist Attacks and Other Criminal Actions Against Maritime Targets
A list of terrorist incidents involving harbors, offshore platforms, and ships at sea.
Jan 1, 1983
Report
Soviet naval war fighting capabilities
This paper deals with the actual war fighting capabilities of the Soviet Navy. It addresses how many combat ships are in the Soviet Navy, to which of the four major home fleets they are assigned, how many units are forward deployed, and how one could...
Jan 1, 1983
Report
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
Report
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
Report
Air-launched missile attacks on ships
Presents a method of analysing missile attacks on surface ships, and illustrates battle outcomes when uncertainty is taken into account. This analysis assumes that the identity of each ship is uncertain, and addresses the effects of the resulting con...
Jan 1, 1979
Report
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
Report
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
Report
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
Report
Nuclear Reactors on Ships: A Bibliography (Rand Library Literature Search #138)
A list of about 300 references on nuclear-powered ships, extracted from Nuclear Science Abstracts (abstracts are not included).
Jan 1, 1969

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Aircraft Carrier Industrial Base

Strategic Futures: Evolving Missions for Traditional Strategic Delivery Vehicles

Dual-Use Technology Program for a Passenger-Cargo Rotorcraft

Should Further U.S. Submarine Production Be Postponed?

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

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

Alternative Concepts for Managing the Distribution of Resupply Cargo

Fast Sealift and Maritime Prepositioning Options for Improving Sealift Capabilities

U.S. and Canadian Cooperative Approaches to Arctic Security

Rethinking the 600-Ship Navy in Light of Gramm-Rudman

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

A Chronology of Terrorist Attacks and Other Criminal Actions Against Maritime Targets

Soviet naval war fighting capabilities

Soviet navy data base: 1982-1983

Life Aboard a Soviet Destroyer and a Soviet Submarine

Air-launched missile attacks on ships

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

A Methodology for Comparing the Range Performance of Chemically Fueled Submersibles

The Economics of Naval Ship Automation: An Analysis of Proposed Automation of the DE-1052

Nuclear Reactors on Ships: A Bibliography (Rand Library Literature Search #138)

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