[PDF] Navy Homeports eBook

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Page : 13 pages
File Size : 19,35 MB
Release : 1992
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In the early 1980s, the Navy planned to expand the number of homeports to help accommodate the expected fleet expansion to 600 ships. In 1984, the Navy selected Everett as a site for one of the new homeports. Because of land constraints at the Everett waterfront site and the closure of the naval station at Sand Point, the Everett homeport will consist of two sites. The main site of 117 acres will house the ships and the facilities necessary to provide ship berthing capabilities and waterfront support, supply and maintenance support, and installation and personnel support. The second site will consist of about 60 acres and will be located about 10 miles from the main site. It will have various morale, welfare, and recreational facilities, such as a commissary/exchange, an auto hobby shop, and a chapel. In 1991, we reported on the status of all of the new homeports, including Everett, and recommended that they be terminated because the existing homeports could accommodate the Navy's fleet, most of the objectives of the strategic homeporting program would not be fulfilled, and fiscal realities required reductions in the defense budget. However, our recommendation was not adapted, and the Navy is proceeding with the development of the new homeports. A complete list of our prior reports and testimonies on homeporting is contained on the last page of this report.

Author : U S Government Accountability Office (G
Publisher : BiblioGov
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 17,84 MB
Release : 2013-06
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ISBN : 9781289091286

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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Navy's strategic homeporting program to accommodate growth and prevent overcrowding at existing homeports, focusing on the: (1) berthing capacity of existing homeports; (2) strategic considerations that would be affected if the Navy did not open new homeports; and (3) costs to develop and operate each new homeport. GAO found that: (1) existing homeports could accommodate their own ships as well as ships scheduled for the new homeports; (2) fleets are expected to decrease from 545 ships in fiscal year (FY) 1990 to 451 ships by FY 1995; (3) the program will not fulfill most of the original strategic objectives primarily due to the changing worldwide threat, decreasing fleet size, and budgetary restraints; (4) the Navy anticipated total costs of about $1.4 billion to develop the six new homeports and estimated that the annual operations and maintenance costs of the new homeports would total $129 million if all the planned 39 ships arrived; (5) the Navy received over $1 billion for the program from appropriations, state and local contributions, and other sources; (6) a nonrecurring savings of about $593 million could result from not opening the new homeports; and (7) annual operations and maintenance savings of about $57 million would result from berthing the ships scheduled for the new homeports at the existing homeports. GAO believes that the primary determination of the need for homeports should be whether or not they meet mission-related requirements, regardless of construction status.

Author : United States Accounting Office (GAO)
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 45,2 MB
Release : 2018-05-28
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ISBN : 9781720414728

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Navy Homeports: Status of the Navy's New Homeport at Everett, Washington

Author : United States Accounting Office (GAO)
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 12,13 MB
Release : 2018-05-11
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ISBN : 9781718960190

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Navy Homeports: Expanded Structure Unnecessary and Costly

Author : Brien Alkire
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 14,75 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0833041460

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Alkire et al. provide a clear understanding of the operational, logistics, and cost trade-offs between three interdependent elements of the Navy's Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program: the number of LCSs in the fleet, the number of mission packages that those LCSs would require in order to perform a range of missions, and the number and locations of LCS homeports and mission package installation sites.