Navy Contracting: Cost Growth Continues on Ship Construction Contracts

NSIAD-92-218 Published: Aug 31, 1992. Publicly Released: Aug 31, 1992.

Highlights

GAO provided information on the cost growth of Navy ship construction contracts, focusing on the: (1) status of the cost growth; (2) cost growth trends; and (3) recent actions to finance additional costs and implications of future cost growth.

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Topics

National Defense

Construction contractsContract costsCost analysisCost overrunsFuture budget projectionsMilitary cost controlMilitary vesselsNaval procurementShipbuilding industryShipyards