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05-10-09, 08:23 AM
US Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard Budget Details Revealed
10:28 GMT, May 10, 2009 Few surprises were evident in the US Navy's budget request for fiscal 2010, although one unexpected development caught some observers off guard - the absence of an updated 30-year shipbuilding plan, which by law should accompany the budget to Capitol Hill.
"It would be inappropriate" to submit the plan before the 2009 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR), Rear Adm. John Blake, deputy assistant secretary of the Navy for budget, told reporters at the Pentagon during a press briefing May 7. Blake explained that the QDR would set requirements for the fleet and an updated plan would be submitted next year.
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Also absent was a 30-year aviation plan, which Congress last year mandated for the first time. The requirement for both plans to be submitted on an annual basis is included under Title X of the U.S. Code.
The Navy is asking Congress for $172 billion in 2010, including $15 billion in supplemental funding requests. The budget breaks down as $45 billion for procurement of aircraft, ships, weapons, ammunition and Marine Corps gear; $44 billion for personnel; $43 billion for operations and maintenance; $19 billion for research and development; and $5 billion for military construction and other infrastructure needs.
The budget calls for an end strength of 328,000 sailors, including 4,400 temporary Individual Augmentees paid out of contingency accounts, and 202,100 Marines. The Navy number represents a halt to downsizing, while the Marine Corps number represents the culmination of growth that began in 2006.
Navy civilian personnel also grow under the new budget request, jumping 1,395 positions to a total of 195,643 employees.
Eight ships make up the Navy's shipbuilding request, with another ship requested for the Army but managed by the Navy. The new ships are one Virginia-class SSN 774 nuclear attack submarine, one Arleigh Burke-class DDG 51 destroyer, three Littoral Combat Ships (LCS), two Lewis and Clark-class T-AKE 1 auxiliary dry cargo ships, and one Joint High Speed Vessel (JHSV). Another JHSV is included in the Pentagon request for the Army.
A total of 203 aircraft are in the Navy budget request, including 16 F-35B short-takeoff, vertical-landing versions of the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) and four F-35C carrier variants. The F-35Cs are the first of the type to be ordered and will be used for operational testing and evaluation.
The Navy also is requesting nine F/A-18 Super Hornets - down nine from the 18 projected in last year's budget - and 22 EA-18G Growler electronic warfare aircraft.
Other aircraft numbers include: 30 MV-22B Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft; 28 AH-1Z and UH-1Y Marine Corps helicopters; 18 MH-60S and 24 MH-60R helos; two E-2D Advanced Hawkeye early warning and detection aircraft (with a third planned aircraft eliminated to pay for research-and-development cost increases); one C-40A transport aircraft; 38 T-6 A and B Texan II Joint Primary Air Training System planes; six P-8A Poseidon maritime multimission aircraft; and five MQ-8B Fire Scout vertical takeoff UAVs.
Previous plans to buy three VH-71 helicopters were canceled along with termination of the entire VH-71 presidential helicopter program, Blake said.
Of $19.3 billion requested for research and development, the largest portions are $1.7 billion for the JSF and $1.2 billion for the P-8A. The biggest R&D increases are $495 million for the new SSBN(X) ballistic missile submarine replacement program - up from $15 million a year ago - and a $92 million jump to $340 million for the CG(X) advanced cruiser program. The most significant declines were a drop from $832 million a year ago for the VH-71 to $85 million in 2010, and shrinkage of last year's $129 million for Growler aircraft to $55 million in 2010.
In the Marine Corps and Navy vehicle category, no further Mine-Resistant Armor Protected (MRAP) vehicles have been requested - in line with the 2009 budget - but over a thousand expanded-capacity Humvee vehicles are in the request: 52 Marine vehicles in the baseline budget, 933 in the Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) request, and 85 for the Navy. Procurement of new Logistics Vehicle System Replacement trucks for the Marine Corps continues, with 496 trucks in the baseline budget and another 95 in the OCO request.
Ballistic missile defense (BMD) funding requests from the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) include nearly $1.7 billion for the Aegis BMD program, including upgrades of BMD signal processors on Navy destroyers; continued development of SM-3 sea-based surface-to-air missiles and initial development of a land-based SM-3 interceptor. Funding of $120 million in support of MDA's Israeli Arrow BMD program - part of a new Israeli cooperative program element - is included.
MDA requested no funds for two programs being terminated, the Multiple Kill Vehicle and the Kinetic Energy Interceptor (KEI). Both programs were dropped, MDA said, because of technical development challenges. MDA also cited the high prospective unit cost of the KEI interceptor, at more than $50 million per unit. A large, 40-foot missile, the KEI was being developed as a land-based interceptor but also was at one time considered for deployment aboard the new CG(X) cruiser.
The Coast Guard's $9.96 billion budget request includes $591 million for a variety of cutter programs; $305 million for aviation programs; and $103 million to buy another 30 Response Boat Medium patrol craft. The service is asking for $1.9 billion for port waterways and coastal security, $1.3 billion for drug interdiction, and $1.2 billion for aids to navigation.
Source: Defense News
http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?i=4079788&c=AME&s=SEA
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Quotes on US Navy Budget
http://www.defpro.com/news/details/7299
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Overview of DoD's Budget Request
http://www.defpro.com/news/details/7298
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Other Services budget proposals:
Air Force:
http://www.defpro.com/news/details/7294/
Army:
http://www.defpro.com/news/details/7285/
Homeland Security:
http://www.defpro.com/news/details/7268/
Ellie
10:28 GMT, May 10, 2009 Few surprises were evident in the US Navy's budget request for fiscal 2010, although one unexpected development caught some observers off guard - the absence of an updated 30-year shipbuilding plan, which by law should accompany the budget to Capitol Hill.
"It would be inappropriate" to submit the plan before the 2009 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR), Rear Adm. John Blake, deputy assistant secretary of the Navy for budget, told reporters at the Pentagon during a press briefing May 7. Blake explained that the QDR would set requirements for the fleet and an updated plan would be submitted next year.
Related Topics
Also absent was a 30-year aviation plan, which Congress last year mandated for the first time. The requirement for both plans to be submitted on an annual basis is included under Title X of the U.S. Code.
The Navy is asking Congress for $172 billion in 2010, including $15 billion in supplemental funding requests. The budget breaks down as $45 billion for procurement of aircraft, ships, weapons, ammunition and Marine Corps gear; $44 billion for personnel; $43 billion for operations and maintenance; $19 billion for research and development; and $5 billion for military construction and other infrastructure needs.
The budget calls for an end strength of 328,000 sailors, including 4,400 temporary Individual Augmentees paid out of contingency accounts, and 202,100 Marines. The Navy number represents a halt to downsizing, while the Marine Corps number represents the culmination of growth that began in 2006.
Navy civilian personnel also grow under the new budget request, jumping 1,395 positions to a total of 195,643 employees.
Eight ships make up the Navy's shipbuilding request, with another ship requested for the Army but managed by the Navy. The new ships are one Virginia-class SSN 774 nuclear attack submarine, one Arleigh Burke-class DDG 51 destroyer, three Littoral Combat Ships (LCS), two Lewis and Clark-class T-AKE 1 auxiliary dry cargo ships, and one Joint High Speed Vessel (JHSV). Another JHSV is included in the Pentagon request for the Army.
A total of 203 aircraft are in the Navy budget request, including 16 F-35B short-takeoff, vertical-landing versions of the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) and four F-35C carrier variants. The F-35Cs are the first of the type to be ordered and will be used for operational testing and evaluation.
The Navy also is requesting nine F/A-18 Super Hornets - down nine from the 18 projected in last year's budget - and 22 EA-18G Growler electronic warfare aircraft.
Other aircraft numbers include: 30 MV-22B Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft; 28 AH-1Z and UH-1Y Marine Corps helicopters; 18 MH-60S and 24 MH-60R helos; two E-2D Advanced Hawkeye early warning and detection aircraft (with a third planned aircraft eliminated to pay for research-and-development cost increases); one C-40A transport aircraft; 38 T-6 A and B Texan II Joint Primary Air Training System planes; six P-8A Poseidon maritime multimission aircraft; and five MQ-8B Fire Scout vertical takeoff UAVs.
Previous plans to buy three VH-71 helicopters were canceled along with termination of the entire VH-71 presidential helicopter program, Blake said.
Of $19.3 billion requested for research and development, the largest portions are $1.7 billion for the JSF and $1.2 billion for the P-8A. The biggest R&D increases are $495 million for the new SSBN(X) ballistic missile submarine replacement program - up from $15 million a year ago - and a $92 million jump to $340 million for the CG(X) advanced cruiser program. The most significant declines were a drop from $832 million a year ago for the VH-71 to $85 million in 2010, and shrinkage of last year's $129 million for Growler aircraft to $55 million in 2010.
In the Marine Corps and Navy vehicle category, no further Mine-Resistant Armor Protected (MRAP) vehicles have been requested - in line with the 2009 budget - but over a thousand expanded-capacity Humvee vehicles are in the request: 52 Marine vehicles in the baseline budget, 933 in the Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) request, and 85 for the Navy. Procurement of new Logistics Vehicle System Replacement trucks for the Marine Corps continues, with 496 trucks in the baseline budget and another 95 in the OCO request.
Ballistic missile defense (BMD) funding requests from the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) include nearly $1.7 billion for the Aegis BMD program, including upgrades of BMD signal processors on Navy destroyers; continued development of SM-3 sea-based surface-to-air missiles and initial development of a land-based SM-3 interceptor. Funding of $120 million in support of MDA's Israeli Arrow BMD program - part of a new Israeli cooperative program element - is included.
MDA requested no funds for two programs being terminated, the Multiple Kill Vehicle and the Kinetic Energy Interceptor (KEI). Both programs were dropped, MDA said, because of technical development challenges. MDA also cited the high prospective unit cost of the KEI interceptor, at more than $50 million per unit. A large, 40-foot missile, the KEI was being developed as a land-based interceptor but also was at one time considered for deployment aboard the new CG(X) cruiser.
The Coast Guard's $9.96 billion budget request includes $591 million for a variety of cutter programs; $305 million for aviation programs; and $103 million to buy another 30 Response Boat Medium patrol craft. The service is asking for $1.9 billion for port waterways and coastal security, $1.3 billion for drug interdiction, and $1.2 billion for aids to navigation.
Source: Defense News
http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?i=4079788&c=AME&s=SEA
----
Quotes on US Navy Budget
http://www.defpro.com/news/details/7299
----
Overview of DoD's Budget Request
http://www.defpro.com/news/details/7298
----
Other Services budget proposals:
Air Force:
http://www.defpro.com/news/details/7294/
Army:
http://www.defpro.com/news/details/7285/
Homeland Security:
http://www.defpro.com/news/details/7268/
Ellie