What shipbuilding crisis?

Article Abstract:

The US shipbuilding budget declined from $11.5 billion in 1991 outlays to $.6.5 billion in 2000, but spending on ship construction is back to $10 billion level in 2006, and the Navy is building new generations submarines, supply ships and expeditionary warfare vessels. The Navy's latest 30-year shipbuilding plan calls for significantly increasing the number of ships in the US fleet from the current 281 ships to 315 by 2012 and 330 by 2018.

Public Finance Activities, Ship Building and Repairing, Shipbuilding & Repair, Labor Distribution by Employer, Expenditures-Total Govt, Expenditures-State Govt, Forecasts and trends, Statistics, Market trend/market analysis, Expenditures, Public, Public expenditures, Shipbuilding industry, Government finance

---

FY 2000 Defense Appropriations Act overview

Article Abstract:

The $268 billion FY 2000 Defense Appropriations bill was signed into law by President Clinton, reversing years of decline in defense spending. The law includes what is claimed to be the largest percentage increase in military compensation (4.8%) in over a generation. The law also appropriates funding for all critical defense programs and provides full funding for training, spare parts, equipment maintenance and base operations.

National Security, National Defense

---

Commercial spacefarers

Article Abstract:

Commercial communication satellites numbering 1,017 and valued at $50 bil would be launched in the next decade, as predicted by Fairfax, VA-based consulting company Teal Group. The Defense Information Systems Agency, US Space Command and virtually all the services are monitoring the commercial aspect of the space business because they believe it poses major effects both for actual use and for military strategy.

Communications Satellites, Guided Missile and Space Vehicle Manufacturing

Similar abstracts:

• Abstracts: Cultural self-abuse: Movies and the military. Congress to vote on defense authorization and appropriations bills
• Abstracts: Abu Dhabi Ship Building launches expansion plan. The Emirates Air Warfare Centre. A vision for the Federation
• Abstracts: New ship self-defense systems for littoral protection. The missile killers. Power projection for the new world disorder
• Abstracts: Cyber-warfare distributed training. Precision strike weapons and net-centric warfare. Information warfare: how real is the threat, and can it be countered?
• Abstracts: Netherlands equips national crisis center. The end of humanitarian intervention. The most powerful weapon in the world

This website is not affiliated with document authors or copyright owners. This page is provided for informational purposes only. Unintentional errors are possible.