(See) SSBN(X) - Columbia-Klasse

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Report to Congress on Columbia-class Ballistic Missile Submarine Program

The Navy’s Columbia (SSBN-826) class ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) program is a program to design and build a class of 12 new SSBNs to replace the Navy’s current force of 14 aging Ohio-class SSBNs. Since 2013, the Navy has consistently identified the Columbia-class program as the Navy’s top priority program. The Navy procured the first Columbia-class boat in FY2021 and wants to procure the second boat in the class in FY2024. [...]

The Navy’s FY2022 budget submission estimates the procurement cost of the first Columbia-class boat at $15,030.5 million (i.e., about $15.0 billion) in then-year dollars, including $6,557.6 million (i.e., about $6.60 billion) in costs for plans, meaning (essentially) the detail design/nonrecurring engineering (DD/NRE) costs for the Columbia class. (It is a long-standing Navy budgetary practice to incorporate the DD/NRE costs for a new class of ship into the total procurement cost of the first ship in the class.) Excluding costs for plans, the estimated hands-on construction cost of the first ship is $8,473.0 million (i.e., about $8.5 billion). The Navy’s FY2021 budget submission estimated the total procurement cost of a 12-ship class at $109.8 billion in then-year dollars.

https://news.usni.org/2021/09/15/report-...-program-3

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