Littoral Combat Ships Relating Performance to Mission Package Inventories, Homeports, and Installation Sites

by Alkire, Brien; Birkler, John; Dolan, Lisa; Dryden, James; Mason, Bryce

• ISBN13: 9780833041463
• ISBN10: 0833041460
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-06-16
• Publisher: RAND Corporation
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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. iii
Figures	p. xi
Tables	p. xv
Summary	p. xvii
Acknowledgments	p. xxix
Abbreviations	p. xxxi
Introduction	p. 1
Three Primary Missions for the LCS	p. 3
Modular Capabilities	p. 6
RAND's Analysis	p. 6
Scenario and LCS Employment Option Analyses	p. 7
Transit, Logistics, and Cost Analyses	p. 9
Organization of the Monograph	p. 10
Employing the LCS: Scenarios and Concepts of Operation	p. 11
How LCSs Will Be Employed	p. 11
Scenarios That LCSs Will Encounter	p. 12
Major Combat Operations	p. 13
Stability Operations	p. 14
Global War on Terrorism	p. 15
Homeland Defense	p. 15
Initial Locations and Readiness of LCSs and Related Assets	p. 16
Methodology and Analytical Framework	p. 19
Analytical Models That We Used	p. 19
Littoral Combat Ship Transshipment Model (LCSTSM)	p. 19
Cost Models	p. 24
Analyses That We Performed	p. 24
Preferred LCS Homeports and Mission Package Installation Sites	p. 25
The Navy's Expected LCS fleet	p. 25
Criteria for Choosing Suitable Homeports and Installation Sites	p. 26
Selecting Preferred Homeports and Installation Sites	p. 27
Initial Analysis of 15 Sites	p. 27
Initial Analysis of Preferred Sites for the Short Term, Middle Term, and Long Term: 15 Sites	p. 27
Second-Order Analysis of Preferred Sites for the Short Term, Middle Term, and Long Term: Eight Sites	p. 28
Testing the Sensitivity of Performance of Second-Order Sites to Removal or Retention of Japan in the Short Term, Middle Term, and Long Term	p. 32
Choosing Between Guam and Japan: Cost Comparison	p. 35
Testing the Sensitivity of Performance of Second-Order Sites to Removal or Retention of Singapore in the Short Term, Middle Term, and Long Term	p. 36
Conclusion: The Same Five Sites Are Preferred for Each Time Frame for Homeports and Mission Package Installation Sites	p. 40
Preferred LCS Mission Package Inventories	p. 45
Assumed LCS Seaframe Inventories in the Short Term, Middle Term, and Long Term	p. 45
LCS Mission Package Inventories in the Short Term, Middle Term, and Long Term	p. 46
The Proportion of Mission Package Types Needed in the Short Term, Middle Term, and Long Term	p. 46
Minimum Number of Each Mission Package Type Needed in the Short Term, Middle Term, and Long Term	p. 47
Quantities of LCS Mission Packages, by Type, That the Navy Will Need in the Short Term, Middle Term, and Long Term	p. 49
Locations Where LCS Mission Packages Change-Outs Will Occur	p. 51
Conclusion: The Number of Mission Packages the Navy Will Need and Where They Should Be Kept	p. 54
Projected LCS and Mission Package Costs and Performance	p. 59
Cumulative Procurement Costs for LCS Seaframes, Mission Packages, and Facilities Construction	p. 59
Performance of LCS With Our Recommended Inventories and Locations	p. 60
Additional Considerations	p. 63
Risks and Benefits Involved With Storing and Installing Mission Packages at Different Sites	p. 63
Sealift	p. 64
Airlift	p. 65
Maintaining Performance With Fewer Mission Packages and More Installation Sites	p. 68
Homeport Locations and Mission Package Proportions for Scenarios Involving MCOs Versus Scenarios Not Involving MCOs	p. 69
Recommendations	p. 75
Homeports and Installation Sites	p. 75
Inventories of Mission Packages	p. 76
Theater Transit Times	p. 76
Costs and Schedule of Acquisitions	p. 76
Emerging Issues	p. 80
Appendix
Mathematical Details of the LCS Transshipment Model	p. 83
LCS Investment Cost Analysis	p. 89
LCS Performance Assumptions	p. 99
Navy Special Operations Forces Perspective on LCS	p. 103
Bibliography	p. 105
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