Product Description: Examines contracting alternatives for the full deployment phase of the U.S. Navy’s Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services (CANES) system, which is intended to give the Navy a common set of key command, control, communications, computers, and intelligence networks across the fleet...read more

Product Description: To achieve a more responsive and more readily deployable fleet of surface combatants, the Navy adopted the Fleet Response Plan (FRP) in 2003 to replace its traditional two-year ship maintenance cycle. The authors of this report look at the effects the FRP has had thus far and determine whether maintenance resources are meeting maintenance demands and whether related industry resources have been coordinated effectively...read more

Product Description: Describes the global enviroment in which joint forcible entry operations might occur and the role of naval power in that environment.

Product Description: Assesses whether shipyards, other naval firms, and suppliers in the United Kingdom have sufficient capacity to meet the demands of the Ministry of Defense's construction of new ships and submarines over the next 15 years.