Great. Another $5 billion dollar target barge in the works.

[unhappycamper]

The first Zumwalt-class destroyer won't deploy until 2016.


DDG 1000 moves forward as budget battles fade
By Christopher P. Cavas - Staff writer
Posted : Saturday Aug 7, 2010 11:13:02 EDT

Devoid of much fanfare and defying the expectations of critics, production of the Navy’s DDG 1000 Zumwalt-class destroyer program is steadily moving forward.

In June, the program weathered a Nunn-McCurdy breach — a budget-control measure triggered by the jump in per-unit cost when the Navy decided in 2008 to “truncate” the class from seven ships to three — and in early July awarded the first contracts to begin fabrication of the third ship. With work now proceeding on all three ships, program manager Capt. James Syring turned over his duties Aug. 6 after nearly five years at the helm of what is arguably the most complex surface warship ever built.

The program, according to Syring, is still meeting most of its cost targets — a claim he first made a year ago. But he declined to cite a figure for cost growth on the first ship, projected to cost about $3.3 billion.

“We track CPI and cost performance, and every contract at this point is above a 0.9 CPI,” meaning no contract is 10 percent or more over budget, he said. “The majority of the contracts are within 1 or 2 percent.”

The CPI is a measure of cost efficiency, computed by dividing the budgeted cost by the actual cost.



unhappycamper comment: I wasn't aware that the DoD budget battles were fading. We must be in an economic recovery.

The first two of these barges cost over $5 billion dollars each. And then the DoD had the temerity to cancel the primary weapons system, NLOS-LS.

WTF are you guys thinking?